RMIT student Tom Morgan, fresh from winning the Regrowth Pod competition, won the HP Cityscape 2020 competition at a ceremony in Melbourne last week. I’ve no clue what this competition was about other than “visions of an Australian city skyline in the year 2020 “- but here are some pics and words I’ve dredged.

#1 TOM MORGAN, RMIT, ‘Broke + Remade’
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There was a great contraction – a strategic withdrawl as a city of five million splintered; focused into dense agglomerations around surviving infrastructures. The greatest of these grew around the old city centre, a place of nearly two million in a neat triangle bound by the old ‘burbs of Preston, Footscray and St Kilda.

#2 IAN ROBERTSON, FBE, ‘URBAN HOMESTEAD ACT of 2009’
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Space in the city isn’t pure, and can’t be defined by simple figure ground relationships. Space flows around unvisible whorls and eddies, and tracing movement in the urban environment exposes spaces that have unknown unactivity – space we don’t know that we don’t use. These unused sites are sites for the injection of life into the urban muddle – dead space for living people.

#3 Jas Johnston, Uni Melb, ‘SKYLANES 2020’
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Posted by Peter on 14.08.09 in competitions