I don’t mean among urban planners, architects, developers and their kin who make it their business to know about such stuff. But in politics and in the general community, the language of ‘urbanism’ has begun to take hold. Everywhere, people seem to be talking about ‘liveability’, ‘walkability’ and new urban ‘precincts’; enthusing about ‘local communities’, the availability of ‘green spaces’ and ‘transport hubs’; and offerings in terms of ‘connectivity’ and ‘public amenity’.

 

Real estate prose these days is awash with this urbanist kind of language.

 

Our Prime Minister and public transport aficionado, Malcolm Turnbull, is a self-confessed ‘urbanist’ – meaning he believes that our cities, and the way they are planned and developed, are important to the success of the country.

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