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Like John Brumby before him, Ted Baillieu thinks big cities are made up of lots of self-contained villages. That’s worrying because it means the Premier of Victoria doesn’t get what cities are about

Planners seem seduced by the idea that cities are just lots of self-contained villages. But that view misunderstands what cities are about and why they form.

Victoria’s Planning Minister, Matthew Guy, seems to have forgotten about the Metropolitan Planning Strategy he promised during the election campaign. Mr Guy’s been in office since November 2010 and the team preparing the Metro Strategy for Melbourne was set up a year ago. Yet the only output we’ve seen so far is a web site, [...]