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The Commission undertook a range of research to identify both the problems in Melbourne's planning, and theory and practice for resolving them. Prominent surveyor and planner Saxil Tuxen worked acted (in voluntary capacity) as a technical expert, travelling to the United States in 1925, to examine
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on 1 October 1920, recognising the need for the 'regulation of development on modern scientific lines'. The Local Government Act in 1921 allowed municipalities to introduce by-laws to define residential areas where new 'trade, industry or commercial issues' could be prohibited – a form of land use
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It also proposed a city square over the railway yard between Flinders Street and Batman Avenue, running east 33 feet (10 m) from Princes Bridge, but was later dropped as unsuitable due to cost and traffic congestion. This was ultimately completed as
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The Commission was empowered to 'report upon the present conditions and tendencies of urban development' and to 'set out general plans and recommendations with respect to the better guidance and control of such development'.
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were preserved and maintained, at a time when other planning experts were calling for them to be removed and to promote development which incorporated Melbourne's waterways, notably, the Yarra River.
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Although the 1929 plan was not formally implemented, many of its ideas were eventually adopted. In the early 1950s the planning system was substantially created as we know it today with the 1954
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Urban growth in the early 20th century was putting pressure on infrastructure in Melbourne including increased land use conflicts. A town planning conference was convened by the
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their approaches to surveying and planning. His primary authorities were Melbourne's waterways, roadways and public transport, where he tried to ensure that Melbourne's
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being produced and gradually implemented under the aegis of the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, Department of Transport and local councils.
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Nichols, D, 2009, Lecture Four: ‘Early Planning Innovator's, The University of Melbourne 23 March 2009, retrieved 13 May 2009, <
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Nichols, D, 2004, ‘Merely the Man in the Street: Community Consultation in the Planning of 1920's Melbourne’,
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Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 1954 – Report and its associated Survey and Analysis volume
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Stephen Cauchi (February 1998). "Whatever Happened to the Proposed Railway to Doncaster East".
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The initial 1929 report recommended an underground railway to bypass the city from
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zoning. In the following year, as a consequence of 'a consistent agitation' the
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The construction of two new suburban railway lines was also suggested: a
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Shaping Melbourne's Future?: Town Planning, the State and Civil Society
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List of Victoria Government Infrastructure Plans, Proposals and Studies
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to provide advice for the planning and development of the city of
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Victorian state government
Melbourne
Melbourne City Council
City of Melbourne
Frank Stapley
tram networks
Richmond
North Melbourne
Exhibition
Victoria
Flinders Street station
Melbourne Underground Rail Loop
Federation Square
railway line to Doncaster
Victorian Parliament
Kew branch line
Map
Glen Waverley line
Darling railway station
Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme
Gordon Stephenson
List of Victoria Government Infrastructure Plans, Proposals and Studies


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