Green Our City Action Plan: Strategic justification for regulatory requirements for sustainability

Arup, Oculus, Hill PDA Consulting and Junglefy for City of Melbourne

Aboriginal Nation

Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung

Client

City of Melbourne

Location

City of Melbourne, Victoria

Jury comment

The Green Our City Action Plan was commissioned by City of Melbourne to explore how standards might enable development to meaningfully contribute to achieving sustainability and urban green infrastructure goals and what the socio-economic benefits of implementing such standards might be for residents, workers and visitors.

Focusing on regulatory provisions, the study provides high quality technical information that assists councils, developers, landscape architects and other designers to incorporate urban green infrastructure into their projects. The jury commends the design team’s detailed work which will be of great use to the landscape architecture profession in their work on inner-city environments.

Collaborating partners Arup, Oculus, Hill PDA Consulting and Junglefy Photographers Alison Hoelzer (top), Ricky Ricardo (bottom)

* The Climate Positive Design award category is in its inaugural year and highlights the importance of striving for climatepositive design outcomes when facing societal and environmental challenges. Projects must show significant effort toward climate change mitigation and /or climate change adaptation, consistent with AILA’s Climate Positive Design Action Plan for Australian landscape architects.