2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Adams was a believer, and he had high-level support. In 1985, he delivered a strategy that
essentially set out all he wanted to do - and predicted nearly all of what has actually happened
since. But the big picture needed micro-detail to bring the vision of a populated, people-friendly
CBD to street-level life. Gehl’s Places for People research delivered that element when the MCC
brought him out in 1993.

Adams says such detail has enabled change in an age of tight budgets - small scale and
incremental. Things like building frontages and lighting influence the way people perceive streets
as places to stop, sit or shop - and also perceptions of safety. Doyle calls it “the palette of the
city” - and underfoot, the city is getting durable, attractive bluestone footpaths as a result. Gehl’s
research delivered “the human dimension”...

They (now) describe the 116,431 people now living in the CBD, and the 28,099 city residences; the
100,000 pedestrians using Swanston Street on a Saturday night; the average 840,000 people
thronging the city every weekday - a number that sometimes tops 1 million.




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