This is a scoping paper that addresses healthy food access in Melbourne. The investigation is premised the concept of ‘food deserts’, spaces within cities that lack ‘adequate access’ to affordable, healthy food.

This paper is dedicated to discover the process of the urban development in the context of Melbourne’s city centre, by illustrating the physical transformation in a set of figure-ground maps.

This paper examines the relationship between density increases and reducing carbon within cities.

This paper outlines efforts throughout 2011 by the Victorian Department of Health’s North and West Metropolitan Region to implement a Regional Health and Wellbeing Implementation Strategy. The Strategy provides regional expression to the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2011-2015 (Department of Health, 2011a), and the many opportunities identified within it.

This paper investigates the implications of a transit-oriented intensification scenario for public transport and the distribution of potential development densities in Melbourne.