Cities of the Future

Cities of the Future

In this series,The Age explores how Geelong,Ballarat,Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.

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Youthquakes,tall buildings and the tremor of change:The future of Victorian regional cities

Youthquakes,tall buildings and the tremor of change:The future of Victorian regional cities

The state’s big regional cities are hurtling towards radical demographic change. Here’s where things have gone wrong - and what needs to improve.

  • byBenjamin Preiss
The population experiment and the towns that almost made it

The population experiment and the towns that almost made it

In the 1970s,town planners set out to create a metropolis on the river. They almost made it. Today,single people live in giant houses they don’t need as the cities scramble to fit people in.

  • byBenjamin Preiss
The incongruence of Geelong:When a big city can’t keep up

The incongruence of Geelong:When a big city can’t keep up

The Commonwealth Games promised to hoist Geelong onto the world stage,but as the dream of co-hosting the event came crashing down,the city’s ‘dingy’ areas are in the spotlight again.

  • byBenjamin Preiss
Southern swell:Why Queensland is attracting so many migrants from NSW and Victoria

Southern swell:Why Queensland is attracting so many migrants from NSW and Victoria

Use these interactive maps to find out how many people have moved into your neighbourhood from NSW and Victoria.

  • byMatt Wade,Craig Butt andCourtney Kruk
We must tighten graduate visa rules to reduce population pressures

We must tighten graduate visa rules to reduce population pressures

The Australian graduate visa system is delivering perverse outcomes. The government needs to reverse course,and quickly.

  • byBrendan Coates andTrent Wiltshire
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‘No way I will ever go back’:The Sydney suburbs losing the most people to Queensland

‘No way I will ever go back’:The Sydney suburbs losing the most people to Queensland

These interactive maps show how many people have moved north of the border from Sydney.

  • byMatt Wade,Craig Butt andCourtney Kruk
How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without things turning toxic?

How do we find migration’s Goldilocks number without things turning toxic?

Australia needs hundreds of thousands of new homes,but it can’t build them without more migrant workers. It’s a problem ripe for politics.

  • byMichael Koziol
2000 a day:Australian population swells at record rate

2000 a day:Australian population swells at record rate

The country’s population grew by 563,200 in the past 12 months as migrants,particularly international students,rushed back.

  • byShane Wright
Booths and banter:Dine-ins the new American melting pot

Booths and banter:Dine-ins the new American melting pot

New research shows dine-in restaurants serve a social purpose in a place where religion is no longer the glue that binds people across class.

The billionaire’s experiment of paying workers $10,000 to have a child
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The billionaire’s experiment of paying workers $10,000 to have a child

James Liang is the chairman of one of China’s top companies. He just started paying his employees $10k to have babies.

  • byEryk Bagshaw