The 5km movement restriction in #Melbourne is another way #CovidVic is exposing inequalities in our city’s fabric. If you’re in an inner suburb, or leafy middle, you may well have plenty of pleasant places to walk, interact with nature and alternatives for food shopping...(1/)

(2/) my concern is for people in less walkable, particularly outer suburbs who will experience further social isolation, and less potential to enjoy mental health benefits of interacting with nature/green space. A great city must be permeated with parks and great public spaces...

(3/) alas, there is dramatic inequality in Melbourne between suburbs that have lots of tree cover, parks and fine-grained pedestrian networks; and those that lack all three. The improtance of 20 minute neighbourhoods and ecological design approaches grow every day...

(4/) To be clear, this is not a critique of the 5km movement restriction per se, nor is it raising an issue that many planners and activists have encountered. But the quality of place has been sidelined too long in much of #Melbourne’s recent development and it is a justice issue

(5/) of course the systems, institutions and organisations that have enabled these patterns of development remain largely intact. Those that have been involved are not likely living the experience of these places. All this must change.