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    Price $99.95 Format Hardback 452 pages Category: Non-fiction ISBN 9781921401213 Perth, a city of 1.5 million relatively complacent people, is changing at a phenomenal rate. The city is predicted to grow from 1.5 million people to 4.2 million by 2056. The entire city and its infrastructure needs therefore to be more than doubled in the next 4 decades. Perth is also the world’s most isolated city struggling to find sustainable sources of water and food and its minerals based economy is a one-liner highly vulnerable to global perturbations. Sprawled further than almost any other city on earth and almost entirely car dependent, Perth, a place that was for so long synonymous with the Great Australian Dream, now faces an uncertain future. If it is to survive the 21st century and avoid social and ecological chaos, Perth must become an innovative society. Central to that is the way we shape the city. As it stands, Perth is almost entirely comprised of low density suburbia but is that the right form of urbanism for the 21st century. This book takes on the whole city and shows ways it could be re-shaped to suit the challenges of the 21st century. The book is a manual for change, designed to help the community visualize the results of planning decisions and get everyone involved in the debate about how the city should grow. This book takes the debate beyond “not in my backyard”. This is an important book for Perth specifically, but it also presents a model for other city experiencing rapid growth. available from amazon.com more information from www.uwap.uwa.edu.au

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    Price $99.95 Format Hardback 452 pages Category: Non-fiction ISBN 9781921401213 Perth, a city of 1.5 million relatively complacent people, is changing at a phenomenal rate. The city is predicted to grow from 1.5 million people to 4.2 million by 2056. The entire city and its infrastructure needs therefore to be more than doubled in the next 4 decades. Perth is also the world’s most isolated city struggling to find sustainable sources of water and food and its minerals based economy is a one-liner highly vulnerable to global perturbations. Sprawled further than almost any other city on earth and almost entirely car dependent, Perth, a place that was for so long synonymous with the Great Australian Dream, now faces an uncertain future. If it is to survive the 21st century and avoid social and ecological chaos, Perth must become an innovative society. Central to that is the way we shape the city. As it stands, Perth is almost entirely comprised of low density suburbia but is that the right form of urbanism for the 21st century. This book takes on the whole city and shows ways it could be re-shaped to suit the challenges of the 21st century. The book is a manual for change, designed to help the community visualize the results of planning decisions and get everyone involved in the debate about how the city should grow. This book takes the debate beyond “not in my backyard”. This is an important book for Perth specifically, but it also presents a model for other city experiencing rapid growth. available from amazon.com more information from www.uwap.uwa.edu.au

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    BOOMTOWN 2050 by RICHARD WELLER

    Caricato da

    Terri-ann White
    Price $99.95 Format Hardback 452 pages Category: Non-fiction ISBN 9781921401213 Perth, a city of 1.5 million relatively complacent people, is changing at a phenomenal rate. The city is predicted to grow from 1.5 million people to 4.2 million by 2056. The entire city and its infrastructure needs therefore to be more than doubled in the next 4 decades. Perth is also the world’s most isolated city struggling to find sustainable sources of water and food and its minerals based economy is a one-liner highly vulnerable to global perturbations. Sprawled further than almost any other city on earth and almost entirely car dependent, Perth, a place that was for so long synonymous with the Great Australian Dream, now faces an uncertain future. If it is to survive the 21st century and avoid social and ecological chaos, Perth must become an innovative society. Central to that is the way we shape the city. As it stands, Perth is almost entirely comprised of low density suburbia but is that the right form of urbanism for the 21st century. This book takes on the whole city and shows ways it could be re-shaped to suit the challenges of the 21st century. The book is a manual for change, designed to help the community visualize the results of planning decisions and get everyone involved in the debate about how the city should grow. This book takes the debate beyond “not in my backyard”. This is an important book for Perth specifically, but it also presents a model for other city experiencing rapid growth. available from amazon.com more information from www.uwap.uwa.edu.au

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    Boomtown 2050 is a timely and authoritative account

    of the numerous questions facing Perth’s residents at


    the intersection of environmental affordance, urban form
    Boomtown 2050 is in my
    view likely to become the
    and public policy, and offers international audiences a
    most important planning compelling image of the use of design as a form of urban Since 70% of city
    document produced in infrastructure in 2050 already
    this city since the 1955 research. It should be required reading for students of the exists today, Boomtown 2050
    Stephenson Hepburn plan. city worldwide. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHARLES WALDHEIM opens up an essential debate
    PATRIC DE VILLIERS URBANIZMA as to how we transform rather
    ASSOCIATE DEAN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO than rebuild our cities to
    Richard Weller truly meet the twin pressures of
    understands cities, spaces population growth and climate
    and places. Boomtown 2050 In an era when planning is weighed down by the change. The case studies
    is essential reading about and base data provided in
    Perth and gives a “warts and prescriptivism of “new urbanism” this work boldly, some Boomtown 2050 needs to be
    replicated in all cities so as to
    all” summary of what and
    who we are. This book truly
    might even say bravely, tests the veracity of a full range allow us to have an intelligent
    captures this period in our of living options for Perth. The West Australian capital debate as to the future form
    evolution and encourages us of our cities. Business as
    all to appreciate ourselves is set on a trajectory for mighty growth in the first half usual is not an option!
    PROFESSOR ROB ADAMS
    more fully for our own
    records and for a more
    of the 21st century...Richard Weller’s book Boomtown DIRECTOR CITY DESIGN AND URBAN ENVIRONMENT,
    MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL

    sustainable future. 2050 boldly canvasses options for Perth amid what will
    LISA SCAFFIDI LORD MAYOR, CITY OF PERTH
    surely be known as the century of growth. BERNARD SALT
    DEMOGRAPHER AND COMMENTATOR

    ISBN 978-1921401-21-3

    ISBN 978-1921401-21-3

    9 781921 401213
    UWA PUBLISHING

    9 781921 401213

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