TOD Tour – reflections on return to Adelaide

The past 16 days visiting some of Europe’s leading urban development and regeneration projects have revealed a number of opportunities to positively shape Adelaide’s future urban form – and several lessons learnt by other cities and best not repeated. Consistent keys to success demonstrated in London, Manchester, Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Rotterdam include the [...]

Innovative housing in Copenhagen

For over 150 years Adelaide has been used to medium density two storey townhouses and duplexes. In fact, they are in high demand in the city and North Adelaide and their modern equivalents can increasingly be found in the inner suburbs. Over the past few days in Copenhagen we have seen more contemporary examples – [...]

The importance of landmarks

A common feature of many of the new urban villages we have visited in Scandinavia particularly has been a significant landmark which identifies its location for miles around. In Malmö, Sweden, we inspected the sustainable city development of Western Harbour – once home to the global Swedish shipbuilding firm Kockums, but since the shipyard’s closure [...]