Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
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□ Melbourne—City in the Forest
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Delivering the world’s first in-
road stormwater harvesting system at Darling Street ◆
green space by converting a street into a park (4) Research and partnership
Investing $20 million to build
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Our joint research with the
a stormwater harvesting network from
University of Melbourne, using
2011–2014 contributing to securing
dendrochronology techniques to
25% of the water required for landscape
understand the impacts of climate change
irrigation annually
on Melbourne’s trees, is the first of its
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A four year citizen engagement
program to develop public awareness
kind for a city ◆
Our “Integrated Climate Change
about the impacts of drought on the urban
Adaptation Model” will, as Australia’s
forest
first city climate decision making tool,
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Delivering the 200m green roof – 2
“The Venny” ◆
Investing $5 million for Errol
Street Park which involved expanding
enable us to use local data and make strategic decisions about the locations of green infrastructure interventions for the municipality