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Building and planning studies

Dr Ian McPhail

Victoria's Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability:  a Retro role in modern centralised and highly controlled government?  As inaugural Commissioner he produced a report on metropolitan growth and urban transport called Creating a City that Works, a statement on Energy and the first comprehensive State of the Environment Report for Victoria.  In his lecture Dr McPhail reflected on his period as Commissioner and asked a number of questions, including Has the role made any significant difference?  Is there measurable behaviour change in government?  What are the stresses of a statutory officer acting in a public way within present day centralised and highly controlled government? Is a loose cannon tolerable in these days of careful management of public releases and announcements by governments?  And how does an advocate for sustainable natural resource management make a case in a period of economic downturn with investment, growth and employment priorities far outweighing environmental and resource management priorities? 

 

Professor Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales
Planning, commerce and airports in the National Aviation Policy Review (pdf file 138 KB)

 

Professor Carey Curtis, Curtin University of Technology

Planning for TOD in Perth - the implementation gap (pdf file 136 KB). 

 

ISST-Building and Planning Studies hosted the Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA) Conference at the Barossa Novotel Resort.
The conference theme was Managing change - challenges in education and construction for the 21st century.    The proceedings are published by the School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia and is available as a soft-bound copy at a cost of A$70.  To order, please contact the conference convenor: Associate Professor George Zillante george.zillante@unisa.edu.au, School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, City East Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 Australia.  AUBEA 2009.  Please visit this link to view the conference page.

 

Mr Stephen Hains
CEO Salisbury City Council, Local Government and the Changing Role of Planning.  Stephen is the City Manager of the City of Salisbury, a position that he has held since 1991.  Salisbury is one of the larger local government in SA with an annual budget of around $100 million and a City population of 120,000.  The City of Salisbury is a rapidly developing residential area in northern Adelaide with a strong commercial sector focussing in defence research, electronics and information technology, automotive industries, food and value added agriculture.  For a full outline of Stephen's career please download a copy of his resume (word file 190 KB). 

 

Peter Newman and Tim Beatley
Conducted a presentation on two new books Resilient Cities and Green Urbanism down under: shaping the new green economy.  They spoke about them together in the context of the global financial crash.  How do we begin to respond to this and at the same time participate in making our world safe from damaging climate change and the looming peak in world oil production which sparked the crash after a tripling in oil prices last year.  Politicians are beginning to see that the next economy must be green and hence Obama for example has $150 billion in his stimulus package for green economy innovations such as smart grids, electric vehicles and transit, renewables and energy efficiency.  Can Australia compete in this new green economy?  Peter and Tim will reported on why they think we can.

 

Professor Sir Peter Hall
University of London, presented a major public lecture on Cities in systems of cities: Adelaide, Australia and the world author of Cities of Tomorrow and Cities in Civilization.

 

Theo Maras 
Presented Future buildings from a developer's perspective - this event was sponsored by RICS.

 

 Dr Ron Somers
Public safety - the neglected part of the sustainable design.  For nearly 30 years Ron has "chased ambulances" trying to discover how and why people get injured by unfortunate design decisions affecting the built environment.  Come along for an introduction to the lexicon of common traps that he has defined, where combinations of design features act to decrease the public's perception of danger, and thereby increase the risk.  Hear about the Pattern Trap, the Obscurity Trap, the Subtlety Trap, the Familiarity Trap, and the Camouflage Trap.  

 

Myles Graham
Mawson Fellow, Urban Planning for a New Energy Future.  Research in Japan: Peak Oil, Climate Change and Renewable Energy. 

 

Professor Patrick James
School of Natural and Built Environments, UniSA,  Urban Geotourism.

 

Mr Chris Branford
Mawson Lakes - Sustainable development practices.  Chris has been with Delfin Lend Lease for 20 years.   He joined the company in 1988 as a Planner, working on both West Lakes and Golden Grove.  Chris moved to Brisbane in 1992 to work on Forest Lakes and was appointed Planning Manager responsible for overseeing the statutory planning framework, master planning and urban design of the project.  During his time in Queensland he also worked on a range of other development opportunities with Delfin Lend Lease. 

 

James Service AO
Builder, paper shuffler, heavy hitter - what's your life aim.  James is a highly experienced listed company director with considerable property sector experience.  Appointed Executive Chairman of JG Service Pty Ltd, a specialist property consulting company, Past National President of the Property Council of Australia, and is involved in a number of other government, cultural and community organisations.  He is also an Officer of the Order of Australia, Honorary Fellow of the AIB, Deputy Chairman of Australand, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Fellow of CPA Australia, Adjunct Professor National Institute for Governance, and Member Institute of Chartered Accountants.

 

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