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City monitoring

Future Melbourne

Future Melbourne is Melbourne's long-term plan for the future direction of all aspects of city life, replacing the former City Plan 2010 plan.

City benchmarking and comparisons

There is a growing number of national and international city awards, indexes, lists, ranks and studies which purport to benchmark cities against one another in various categories.

They often receive widespread media attention and consequently are of interest to the City of Melbourne for any potential to influence the city’s reputation or infer ways ‘Melbourne’s’ rankings might be improved. City of Melbourne keeps an inventory of relevant methodologies and studies from this range of products.

The methodologies, purposes or authors’ interpretations of the many international city accolades, comparisons and rankings need to be understood by the City of Melbourne, to most effectively make use of their findings and outcomes.

International city comparisons (PDF, 365kb) This link opens in a new browser window
International city comparisons (text only, 185kb) This link opens in a new browser window

Contact: Nick Casey
Date published: May 2011
Sources: See document

For more information about other research monitoring the state of the city, go to Environmental indicators.

Municipal Strategic Statement Performance Monitoring 2006

This publication summarises a range of land use indicators used by the City of Melbourne to monitor the Municipal Strategic Statement, which is part of a proposed amendment to the Melbourne Planning Scheme (Amendment C60).

Municipal Strategic Statement Performance Monitoring (PDF, 1.6MB) This link opens in a new browser window
Municipal Strategic Statement Performance Monitoring (Text only, 2MB) This link opens in a new browser window

Contact: Karina Bader (Monday to Thursday)
Date published: May 2006
Sources:

  1. 1982 to 2004 Census of Land Use and Employment, City of Melbourne
  2. Pathway (rates) database, City of Melbourne
  3. Development Activity Trend Analysis, City of Melbourne
  4. Population Forecasts, City of Melbourne
  5. 2001 Census of Population and Housing, Australian Bureau of Statistics
  6. Employment, Gross Regional Product & Metabolism, National Economics

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