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.
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
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
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
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
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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