Welcome to the Urban Design Forum

National Urban Design Forum 2008

This year’s National Urban Design Forum will be held in Nathalia and Shepparton in rural Victoria. The theme will be "Design for Vitality in Rural Communities".

Nathalia post office

Nathalia Post Office

Recent NUDFs have been in state capital cities and major regional centres, but never in a rural town. Yet today, large shires, after having catered for their larger towns are now engaging firms to do planning and landscape designs for many of their smaller rural towns - with varying success. Part of the reason for this may be the lack of local knowledge, and the differences between larger urban and regional centres and smaller communities. Nathalia provides the quintessential environment in which to hold this discussion. (Locate it on a map or Google Earth!) Some of the questions we will address include:

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