Abstract
Focused around a central business district, metropolitan Melbourne extends over 8,806 square kilometres of suburbs; however, the City of Melbourne comprises the 40 square kilometres that make up the city centre. The City’s residential population, estimated at 122,000 in 2014, is expected to nearly double to around 230,000 by 2035. The current daytime population (including visitors and workers) approaches one million people. The City’s economy accounts for 27 percent of Victoria’s gross state product and 6 percent of Australia’s gross domestic product.
Melbourne Basics
City population: 122,207
City area: 37.7 square kilometres
Population density: 3,242 inhabitants per square kilometre
Source: See endnote 1.
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Notes
- 1.
City of Melbourne, “Melbourne in Numbers,” www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/Statistics/Pages/MelbourneSnapshot.aspx; population data are preliminary for 2014.
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
City of Melbourne, “Adapting to Climate Change: Heatwaves and Days of Extreme Heat,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/AdaptingClimateChange/Pages/Heatwaves.aspx.
- 4.
City of Melbourne, “Adapting to Climate Change,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/AdaptingClimateChange/Pages/AdaptingClimateChange.aspx.
- 5.
City of Melbourne, “Melbourne’s Urban Forest Strategy—Making a Great City Greener,” www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/UrbanForest/Pages/About.aspx.
- 6.
Ibid.; City of Melbourne, “Melbourne’s Urban Forest,” infographic, www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/UrbanForest/Documents/Urban_Forest_infographic.pdf.
- 7.
City of Melbourne, Total Watermark – City as a Catchment: Update 2014 (Melbourne: 2014).
- 8.
City of Melbourne, “Stormwater Harvesting,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParksandActivities/Parks/Pages/StormwaterHarvesting.aspx.
- 9.
City of Melbourne, Zero Net Emissions by 2020: Update 2014 (Melbourne: 2014).
- 10.
City of Melbourne, “Zero Net Emissions,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/CouncilActions/Pages/ZeroNetEmissions.aspx.
- 11.
City of Melbourne, “Carbon Neutral Council Operations 2013-14,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/CouncilActions/Pages/CarbonNeutral.aspx.
- 12.
City of Melbourne, “About 1200 Buildings,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/1200buildings/Pages/About1200Buildings.aspx; City of Melbourne, “Carbon Neutral Council Operations 2013-14”; City of Melbourne, “Melbourne Wins World Climate Leadership Award,“ press release (Melbourne: September 23, 2014).
- 13.
Enterprise Melbourne, “CitySwitch Green Office Program,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/enterprisemelbourne/environment/Pages/CitySwitch.aspx; City of Melbourne, “Carbon Neutral Council Operations 2013-14.”
- 14.
City of Melbourne, “Council House 2,” www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/CH2/aboutch2/Pages/Factsandfigures.aspx; City of Melbourne, “Library at the Dock’s Sustainable Design on Display,” press release (Melbourne: July 25, 2014); Green Building Council of Australia, “Green Star,” www.gbca.org.au/green-star/.
- 15.
City of Melbourne, Homes for People: Housing Strategy 2014-2018 (Melbourne: January 2015).
- 16.
City of Melbourne, Understanding the Quality of Housing Design (Melbourne: February 2013); Paul Myors, Rachel O’Leary, and Rob Helstroom, Multi Unit Residential Buildings Energy & Peak Demand Study (Melbourne: Energy Australia, October 2005).
- 17.
City of Melbourne, “Sustainable Solutions for Apartments,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Sustainability/WhatCanIDo/Pages/SustainableLivingintheCity.aspx; C40 Cities, “The 2015 Finalists,” www.c40.org/custom_pages/awards_finalists.
- 18.
City of Melbourne, “High-rise Apartment Recycling,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ForResidents/WasteRecyclingandNoise/householdgarbage/Pages/Highriserecycling.aspx; City of Melbourne, Waste and Resource Recovery Plan 2015–18 (Melbourne: 2015).
- 19.
City of Melbourne, “Zero Net Emissions.”
- 20.
Ibid.
- 21.
City of Melbourne, “City of Melbourne Transport Strategy,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutCouncil/PlansandPublications/strategies/Pages/transportstrategy.aspx; City of Melbourne, Transport Strategy 2012 – Planning for Future Growth (Melbourne: 2012).
- 22.
City of Melbourne, “Melbourne Metro Rail Project,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/BuildingandPlanning/FutureGrowth/ExternalProjects/Pages/MetroProjectRailLink.aspx; City of Melbourne, Transport Strategy 2012.
- 23.
City of Melbourne, Draft Bicycle Plan 2016–2020 (Melbourne: 2015); The Good Wheel Project, www.thesqueakywheel.com.au/good-wheel.
- 24.
City of Melbourne, “Zero Net Emissions”; City of Melbourne, Waste and Resource Recovery Plan 2015–2018.
- 25.
Ibid.
- 26.
City of Melbourne, Future Melbourne – A Bold, Inspirational and Sustainable City, Executive Summary (Melbourne: July 2008); City of Melbourne, “Future Melbourne 2026,” https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutCouncil/PlansandPublications/Pages/FutureMelbourne.aspx.
- 27.
City of Melbourne, “100 Resilient Cities,” www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/Resilient_Cities/Pages/ResilientCities.aspx.
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