Brisbane is easing into its emerging urbanity somewhat hesitantly. The city has encouraged rapid development of its inner ring and CBD, including high-density commercial and residential development and, recently, the largescale infrastructure required to provide cross-city connections – roads and bypasses, high-speed busand bike-ways, and underground rail. However, it has been less successful in providing the budgets and design focus necessary to integrate this infrastructure with local conditions and to convert the postindustrial areas and older neighbourhoods where that development is concentrated into places actively connected by pedestrian activity and e-mobility. This lack of recognition, combined with Brisbane’s particularities – fierce heat, steep topography, a tortuous riverine spine and maze-like streets – makes the creation of pedestrian legibility and comfort especially challenging.
Therefore, where projects do appear that demonstrate the forethought, skill and creativity needed to promote pedestrian activity at a precinct-wide scale, they are important to acknowledge.
