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Premier’s ForewordMessage from the PremierIntelligent planning, coupled with optimal public transport,remain integral and inter-related features of the world’sgreat cities.Here in Adelaide, they will be vital elements in ensuring ourcity maintains its global reputation as liveable, sustainableand vibrant.Excellence in planning stems from a well-definedunderstanding and vision of our community’s changingneeds, the recognition that we must protect our heritageand our environment, as well as the acknowledgementthat we must also embrace innovation.As such, Adelaide has reached a critical point in defining its future.That’s why we have developed a 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide and updated SouthAustralia’s Strategic Plan, to provide a comprehensive vision and structure as we chart ourpath forward.In addition, our Integrated Design Strategy is being implemented to ensure that new plansand developments are considered in a holistic and sustainable way.This Strategy will help to guide our unprecedented investment in new infrastructure, aprogram that includes a new central hospital and inner city stadium, and a landmarkredevelopment of Adelaide’s emblematic Riverbank precinct that will link to an enhancedarts and cultural boulevard.Meanwhile, new developments beyond our CBD – such as the Bowden Urban Village andTonsley Park sustainability precinct are being developed to ensure they deliver what FredHansen hails as a “20-minute neighbourhood”.A lifestyle that offers residents the majority of their essential services within a 20 minutewalk, cycle or public transport ride from home.During his term as an Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Fred Hansen has applied and adaptedlessons learned from one of the world’s most successful recent urban redevelopments – inhis home city of Portland, Oregon.In particular, Fred’s experience as General Manager of Portland’s public transport providerunderpins his thinking on the transformative possibilities available through transitdevelopments and integrated transportation planning.In this report, Fred Hansen outlines a path to delivering healthier and more sustainablecommunities.He details the growth opportunities that can stem from communities’ ready accessibility towork and essential services, to quality open space, to greater safety features, and to morepedestrian and cycling-friendly infrastructure. He recommends putting the pedestrian andbicyclist at the centre of transportation.Central to his overall message, Fred emphasises the need for clean, reliable and frequentpublic transport.Indeed, he places transport at the heart of planning, and maintains it is an essentialbuilding block for any successful, sustainable new development, and a means of drivingsocial, economic and creative regeneration in areas that are in need of re-investment.Fred describes the institutional changes we need to embrace to ensure the success of our30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide, and the steps we should take to ensure that transportplanning underpins our State’s broader economic and social goals.I want to thank Fred Hansen for the significant contribution he has made to SouthAustralia through his residency, and I commend this report to you.Mike RannPremier of South AustraliaM E S S A G E F R O M T H E P R E M I E RIIFRED HANSEN: ALL ON BOARDFRED HANSEN: ALL ON BOARDIII