Media Releases

Sometimes rivals, now partners: City of Melbourne & City of Sydney Share Major Planning Award

31 March 2009
The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has bestowed its coveted President’s Award jointly on the City of Melbourne and the City of Sydney for their separate leadership roles in advancing national agendas of sustainability, transport planning and social infrastructure in major cities.

City of Melbourne takes home prestigious planning award

30 October 2008
The City of Melbourne has won the prestigious Local Government award at this year’s Planning Excellence 2008 Victorian Awards for its 'Future Melbourne Community Plan' initiative.

Melbourne to become one of the world's top 10 most liveable & sustainable cities

30 July 2008
By 2020, per capita greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 35 per cent per resident and 59 per cent per worker under a target identified in 'Future Melbourne' - the most ambitious community consultation project ever undertaken by the City of Melbourne.

A new generation of young people are invited to help create the future of Melbourne

29 April 2008
Young people with an interest in creating a vibrant and sustainable Melbourne are being sought to help shape the City of Melbourne's Future Melbourne plan for 2020 by participating in a two day workshop titled Futurelab.

Melbourne’s Great Democratic Experiment Begins

23 May 2007
Democracy, in its true classical sense, is coming to Melbourne with the announcement of the first Future Melbourne public forums hosted by the City of Melbourne and the University of Melbourne.

Leading Melburnians to guide 10-year city plan

27 Apr 2007
A 10-year plan to position Melbourne as the Asia Pacific region’s pre-eminent capital city for living, working and investing will be developed by the City of Melbourne in partnership with the University of Melbourne.

Latest Media Updates

PODCASTS
+ ABC News Radio interview Future Melbourne Reference Group Chair, Carol Schwartz, 30 July 2008

VIDEO
+ Your Future Melbourne
+ Future Melbourne makes news
+ My Grandma Owned a Car

LATEST TRANSCRIPTS
+ Imagining the 2020s: Art in the city (DOC)
+ Sustainable Cities Round Table (DOC)
+ Global Forum (DOC)

DOCUMENTS AND NOTES AND REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
+ Retail Activity (PDF)
+ Change and Social Inclusion, Professor John Wiseman (PDF)
+ What is a wiki? (PDF)