{"id":77483,"date":"2018-04-04T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-legacy-of-liveable-cities-wont-last-without-a-visionary-response-to-growth"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:01:04","slug":"our-legacy-of-liveable-cities-wont-last-without-a-visionary-response-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/our-legacy-of-liveable-cities-wont-last-without-a-visionary-response-to-growth","title":{"rendered":"Our legacy of liveable cities won\u2019t last without a visionary response to growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Australia\u2019s major cities are growing more rapidly than ever before, gaining three million residents in a decade<\/a>. Concerns about the risks to their long-term liveability and health are growing too. Is the consistent placing of Australian cities<\/a> at the top of most liveable city rankings a reason for complacency?<\/p>\n

The fastest-growing city<\/a>, Melbourne, is experiencing unprecedented growth<\/a> and yet has topped The Economist Intelligence Unit global liveability ranking<\/a> for seven years running. However, much like Australia\u2019s remarkable record of 26 years of continuous economic growth<\/a>, many of the policy and institutional reforms that delivered this liveability legacy occurred decades ago.<\/p>\n

Australia is now undergoing its third great wave of population growth, putting pressure on infrastructure, services and the environment. During the past two waves of growth, in the late-19th and mid-20th centuries, cities implemented visionary responses. It\u2019s largely because of these past phases of planning and investment that our cities have until now been able to sustain their liveability and a reasonably healthy natural environment.<\/p>\n

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Australia\u2019s major cities are growing more rapidly than ever before, gaining three million residents in a decade. Concerns about the risks to their long-term liveability and health are growing too. Is the consistent placing of Australian cities at the top of most liveable city rankings a reason for complacency? The fastest-growing city, Melbourne, is experiencing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77497,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77483\/revisions\/77497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}