Apr 19, 2016 | Community Engagement, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff, Walking, Water
Melbourne on the Front Foot! Want Melbourne to be green and healthy into the future? Interested in the built fabric of the city, the magic of planning? Looking for a fun, friendly Saturday afternoon walk? Annie Bolitho facilitates discussion about the ideas...
Dec 3, 2013 | Arts and placemaking, Community Engagement, It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability, Tech tools for engagement, Waste
Councils in Melbourne build community support through engagements across many areas of council business. Arts and sustainability for example. The opening of ‘Small Worlds’ exhibition at Footscray Library last week demonstrated Maribyrnong City...
Nov 22, 2013 | Joint effort - climate adaptation, People, place & governance, Planning, Sustainability, Urban green space
New York’s Highline is a magnificent urban green space. Here’s my favourite planting. Did you know Sydney has an 1854 rail line between Broadway and Darling Harbour? Now the city is looking to develop its Goods Line, linking key locations and increasing...
Aug 4, 2013 | Joint effort - climate adaptation, People, place & governance, Planning, Sustainability
A great afternoon with the University of Melbourne Planning Student’s Association out in the rainy streets of the CBD on Friday. The objective? – To facilitate exchange between recently enrolled students, those in second semester and final year of study....
Feb 24, 2011 | Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Translating the scientific stuff
Just read Stuart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth Discipline, an eco-pragmatist manifesto’. Brand was editor of the optimistic, 70s Whole Earth Catalogue. Now he’s back willing to consider radically different alternative alternatives, in the face of...
Jan 7, 2011 | It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation
I saw this grafitti on a sidewalk in Melbourne as the Brisbane floods were raging. I’ve often looked at those signs swinging in the back windows of cars and felt that it was naive to imagine they have meaning to people in other vehicles. Yet at a time of...
