TEDxSydney - Rob Adams - Melbourne City Planner Reckons that Bigger Cities are Better Cities

[BLEEPNOW]

Make sure you go to Melbourne and visit Rob's CH2 building. CH2 shows us the way ahead for sustainable design. Lets stop talking and start building our transport hubs as green precincts in the CH2 style..........now !

[jdtbruck]

favourite talk of the day! I wonder what we could do with Sydney? Unfortunately Sydney doesn't have that nice grid-like structure that he refers to. Our major highways are already completely clogged, so the issue of increasing population might be less of a location problem but a transport problem? More buses, more train infrastructure...

[AdiRudi]

@jdtbruck I think you have to do both with Sydney. Follow the principles Rob's outlined, but also increase transport services.

[mornnb]

@jdtbruck Currently Sydney is largely developing besides train stations, there's some very high density development in Chatswood and Rhodes for example.

Sydney has much more narrow streets than Melbourne, but this is not fatal, narrow streets are not uncommon in large cities, London for example. Sydney's tram network used to be larger than Melbourne's, with 300km of track length. Many of the tracks still exist under neath our modern roads, with traffic jams of cars passing over them.