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Cities of the Future

In this series focusing on the imminent transformation of Victoria’s regional cities, The Age explores how Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.

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Regions 2050

Youthquakes, tall buildings and the tremor of change: The future of Victorian regional cities

The state’s big regional cities are hurtling towards radical demographic change. Here’s where things have gone wrong - and what needs to improve.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
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Bendigo

Bendigo’s booming CBD needs to change. And the only way is up

Aurlene left an Indian megalopolis to live in this regional city. Thousands of migrants are doing the same.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
Geelong is one of Australia’s fastest-growing cities.

The incongruence of Geelong: When a big city can’t keep up

The Commonwealth Games promised to hoist Geelong onto the world stage, but as the dream crashed, the city’s ‘dingy’ areas are in the spotlight.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
Many young people are returning to Ballarat to open businesses.

The town tasked with killing the Australian dream

People come here to own a home. But to survive, this country town must help shift Victorians’ big house and land obsession.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
Albury-Wodonga

The population experiment and the towns that almost made it

In the 1970s, town planners set out to create a metropolis on the river. Today, single people live in giant houses they don’t need as the cities scramble to fit people in.

  • by Benjamin Preiss

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