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Dr Carolyn Whitzman on plans to increase housing density in Melbourne
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Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she worked for the City of Toronto on healthy city initiatives.
Current research interests include the development of integrated violence prevention initiatives at the local government level, increasing independent mobility for children, and the policy implications of planning for healthy cities.
She is a Board Member of Women in Cities International (www.womenincities.org) and was Chair of the Planning for Health and Well-being Project at the Planning Institute of Australia Victoria (www.planning.org.au/vic/) from 2004 to 2006.
Increasing Melbourne’s housing density along its major tram lines would help achieve the planning goals of Melbourne 2030 according to Dr Carolyn Whitzman at the University of Melbourne.
“The plan would add a lot of certainty, because right now decisions are being made council by council about what maximum heights are going to be, while this plan is talking about a maximum height of 8 stories. Studies in Europe and North America show that if you increase density, you also increase services."
"So building along tram lines can lead to more trams more often, better shopping, more taxes to get better parks and recreation centres and so on.”
