Good Urban Form for Queensland High Rise

Since we're going to have more (and more) high rise apartments let's make sure they're well designed and add to the urban form.


South East Queensland is one of the Australian high density hot spots with 2000 hectares of densely populated land along the coastline.  It poses current and future challenges as more high density real estate gets created.


And now that the Gold Coast Rapid Transit (GCRT) is becoming a reality the Urban Design Forum reports on some great initiatives to apply good urban design principles to future development so that the successes of the past are repeated and the mistakes avoided.  That's included modelling several corridor wide 'built form structures' for discussion in stakeholder sessions, suggesting changes to planning and market settings to reduced 'tower crowding' and the consequent impact on views, micro climate, shadowing and liveability.


It's a really worthwhile exercise to get better long term outcomes.


If you're interested in urban planning and design issues (and how they affect high density real estate) the Planning Institute of Australia and it's publication Urban Design Forum and is a great place to see what's going on.




Francesco ...