Latest articles by Dr Janette Corcoran
Vertical living style
Our apartment layouts might be uniform, but our interiors need not be!
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‘‘Spring clean’’ Docklands!
By Janette CorcoranLast year, on a very wet Saturday, hundreds of volunteers from the 34 chapters of Beach Patrol and Love Our Streets undertook a mammoth litter clean-up in the CBD.
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Loving our streets
By Janette CorcoranDocklands will soon have its own Love Our Street (LOS3008) group. LOS is the “off-beach” arm of Beach Patrol Australia – a volunteer organisation that helps keep the beaches of Melbourne clean.
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Sky gardens
Melbourne may have lost its liveability crown this year but might better green infrastructure help win this back?
Read MoreCommunicating in vertical villages
The sheer number of people who reside in “One Big Residence” means that vertical dwellers live amongst strangers - or so many popular portrayals of high-rise, high-density living would have you believe.
Read MoreLitter from the heavens
Recycling is one way of dealing with high-rise waste but, unfortunately, there are other routes taken by our rubbish.
Read MoreUrban forests in a concrete jungle
For a seventh consecutive year Melbourne has been named the world’s most liveable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) - but how liveable are our fast growing high-density precincts?
Read MoreSafe and secure in our vertical villages
Safe City, Liveable City, EcoCity, Resilient City, Smart City, Knowledge City, Compassionate City – our Melbourne is a multi-themed and highly-considered metropolis!
Read MoreSharing and taking in vertical villages
“Airbnb is not accommodation sharing, it is formalised lending. Uber is not ride sharing, it is a transportation service,” so writes John Harvey of the University of Nottingham.
Read MoreThe vertical war on food waste
The month of May played host to International Compost Awareness Week – and if we lived in San Francisco, this would mean a great deal more to us as vertical dwellers.
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Not just droning on!
Last month a resident’s letter was published on drones in Docklands, raising concerns over privacy and safety.
Read MoreDouble duty furniture
“Vertical living is more than suburbia turned on its side”, so says Mond Qu, a Melbourne-based designer and creator of the DEBLE – a DEsk taBLE combo.
Read MoreModular means flexible vertical living
There is no time like the summer holidays to test our design ingenuity as we organise and reorganise our compact apartments to accommodate hordes of visiting friends and relations (e.g. Christmas dinner for 15 at my place?).
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