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    • Professor Brendan Gleeson

    Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Building, University of Melbourne

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    Environment

    Post-capitalism: Life within environmental limits

    Capitalism’s limitless growth on a finite planet means the economic system we take for granted could end soon. If so, transformative and sustainable change must come from grassroots action

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    Challenging the vertical sprawl

    The towers crowding out the centre of Australian cities are a symptom of failed governance and planning, and it’s threatening any transition to ecocities

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    Q&A

    Q&A: Aspiring to an ecocity future

    Urban design, planning, building and maintenance must respond creatively, appropriately and effectively to the relationship between the social and the natural at both the local and global level. But how do the needs of countries differ?

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