At Federation Square in Melbourne a ‘labyrinth’ water system almost 40 x 40 metres and 1.2 km in length is positioned beneath the square and provides a cooling system for surrounding buildings. This labyrinth is capable of delivering air to the adjacent buildings at up to 12°C below the external ambient temperature, equivalent to conventional air conditioning, but using one tenth of the energy consumption and generating less than a tenth of the CO2 emissions.
Streets are often planned for car traffic only, but streets can become great public spaces mostly for pedestrians and bicyclists, but with accomodations for cars.
Melbourne - One of Melbourne's many pedestrian bridges that bring the parts of the city together through sculpture. Melbourne has a series of pedestrian bridges which tie downtown to the parts of the city across the water.
Melbourne's former dock area is being redeveloped as an exciting new commercial and residential district. Melbourne, Australia has created a vibrant new mixed-use neighborhood.
Underutilized urban surface in America has been generally destined for parking lots. Melbourne took a different approach: turning these lots into gardens for urban agriculture.
Real-time education is the most effective type of education to change behavior.Help people make the connection between their behavior and its impact. Help people make the connection between their behavior, litter and polluted waterways very clear.
Melbourne - the city has converted many of its utilitarian alleys into lane ways for shops and cafes. Converting alleys was used successfully to break up the excessively large blocks and give the city a more intimate feel.Many of Melbourne's alleys have become intimate-scale shopping and cafe streets. This has changed the fabric of the city from large-scale pedestrian unfriendly blocks to a more granular European feeling.
Melbourne - Melbourne's inner city had died as the vast majority of people moved out to the suburbs. Building Federation Square, an arts and entertainment center, with daily free events and fun things to do was part of the strategy to attract people back to the city to live, work and play.
At Federation Square in Melbourne a ‘labyrinth’ water system almost 40 x 40 metres and 1.2 km in length is positioned beneath the square and provides a cooling system for surrounding buildings. This labyrinth is capable of delivering air to the adjacent buildings at up to 12°C below the external ambient temperature, equivalent to conventional air conditioning, but using one tenth of the energy consumption and generating less than a tenth of the CO2 emissions.
Melbourne - Natural vegetation co-exists with new commercial and residential development at the Docklands. At the Docklands in Melbourne, Australia, natural vegetation provides a lovely setting for residents and workers and habitat for birds and small creatures.
