All Aboard: Melbourne Rebuilds for the Future.

<h1>What you need to know</h1> <p>This is a video about a new (expensive) railway, delivered over a&nbsp;<strong>62 year period</strong>. Yet there&rsquo;s more to it. Factors present in Melbourne can be applied to cities across the globe:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Urbanisation</strong>&nbsp;&mdash; Worldbank forecast that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/overview#:~:text=Today%2C%20some%2056%25%20of%20the,people%20will%20live%20in%20cities." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">56% of the global population</a>&nbsp;currently live in cities, this will grow to 70% by 2050</li> <li><strong>Decentralisation&nbsp;</strong>&mdash; the planning model of central districts for jobs and services, suburban accommodation, no longer works.</li> <li><strong>Increased pressure on urban planning&nbsp;</strong>departments to manage, design and implement new infrastructures to reflect work / live practices</li> <li><strong>Changes in transport planning</strong>,i.e. the move away from cars towards greener sustainable transit methods</li> <li>The need to combat&nbsp;<a href="https://energy-cities.eu/what-is-transport-poverty-and-how-can-cities-address-it/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>transport</strong></a>&hellip;</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@gbotsie/all-aboard-melbourne-rebuilds-for-the-future-6dcb6df7cf56"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>