AIUS NSW City Briefing

The Emergence Of ‘Place-Based’ Planning And The Complexity Of The City,
Rod Simpson, Former Commissioner, Greater Sydney Commission

Tuesday, 24 November 2020 5.00pm
Virtual Event - Link to be provided to those registered

Speaker:
Rod Simpson, Former Commissioner, Greater Sydney Commission

Place based planning as a term that is being used more and more but in a different way to how we usually understand place planning- it is much more than being sensitive to context, or preparing a thorough site analysis. It is about collaboration, coordination and integration- in other words bringing multiple parties together to work towards a common understanding. The purpose is to optimize and synergise activities that would normally be separate.

Again you might say this is what urban designers have been doing all along. The difference is the scale, and who is involved and it might not involve ‘design’ at all.