New Farm’s Moray Street was crowned Brisbane’s best place to live in 1993. Three decades on, we’re searching for the city’s current equivalent.
It’s a sign I passed nearly every day when I moved back to Brisbane: “Moray Street, ’Brisbane’s most livable street, 1993”.Brisbane City Council couldn’t say, but former Labor councillor David Hinchliffe, who came into office in 1988 and served for nearly 25 years, remembers the moment.
“Our idea of utopia was a street that was diverse, where there was a sense of community. We looked through a whole range of nominations and Moray Street stood out because it was a combination of individual houses, high-rise and medium rise, and people from all backgrounds. Of course, liveable means different things to different people, so we asked an urban design expert to tell us how he would measure liveability.
“In Australian cities, public spaces can very quickly become conflicted spaces from an access perspective the high volume and high speed of cars in that street.” Do you consider your street liveable because of how it looks and feels? Or is it all about your neighbours?Livable Streets “That can be things like trampolines in the front yard, a community library, or when children do drawings on the street itself,” Mews says.You might also consider access to a third place or social infrastructure, intergenerational housing opportunities, and proximity to services such as shops, public transport and care facilities.
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