Streets Ahead

Streets Ahead tackled the challenge of community-led revitalisation of a prominent main street environment. Albany Highway is no longer a highway but a main street suffering from decades of auto-centric planning. With increases in local population there is an opportunity to refocus on the street environment as a vibrant and active public realm. This interactive 1:100 scaled model allowed participants to imagine new uses for the traditional shopfronts and to test complimentary public realm upgrades to shift the emphasis back to human needs. A partnership between AUDRC, the Vic Park Collective community representative group and the Town of Victoria Park. See the Streets Ahead project page HERE on the Vic Park Collective website to view further information. The Streets Ahead - Co-design Summary Report for Albany Highway in Victoria Park and East Victoria Park can be found HERE.

‘Extraordinary work team! Really positive energy in the room and it seemed to me that people had fun.’

— Andrew Brodie, Vic Park Collective

‘it was great to be able to work collaboratively with other members of the community and visually see what the street could look like’

‘a great way to visualise challenges and solutions’

‘helped think about development/activation above the street level. Also gave perspective to scale of badly designed space taken up by shopping centre/carpark’

— Participant feedback