Apr 16, 2014 | Arts and placemaking, Community Engagement, People, place & governance, Planning, Sustainability, Urban green space, Walking, Waste
Don’t you love autumn? It’s the perfect time for another Jane’s Walk Melbourne! Join me for a Very Public Doddlejot through the CBD on Saturday 3rd May. If you’re a bit puzzled by jotting, or doddling and want to get a feel for the kind of walk...
Nov 28, 2013 | Community Engagement, Planning, Public transport, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
As a community and stakeholder engagement professional I’m attracted to notices advertising stakeholder engagement activities and inviting feedback. I’m a public transport user and was waiting 35 minutes for a bus one weekend in September when visiting ...
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...
Sep 27, 2013 | Community Engagement, Planning, Sustainability
Show me the money! When a property owner values something highly, will offering an incentive change their view? In Los Angeles, with its huge need for water savings, the Water & Power Department will pay the homeowner over a thousand dollars to get rid of their...
Sep 4, 2013 | Deliberative, Planning, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
Sydney bus drivers and bike riders came together at a workshop devised as the final stage of social research on their experience of road use, as small and manoeuvrable and large less manoeuvrable forms of transportation which travel at very different speeds. Material...
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....
