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SeminarWhat future for CBDs?
$50.00The Covid pandemic made ghost towns of Australia’s major city centres. To which was added the sudden success of virtual meetings empowering the decades long struggle to free work from commuting. But the jury is still out on questions of productivity, collaboration, office space forecasts and the future of our CBDs. Join David Harding for an update on what lies ahead for our city centres.
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SeminarWhere is the NSW Planning System headed?
$50.00Join us in person on Tuesday 24 October 2023 for a conversation with Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, Paul Scully. The Minister has taken office amidst a crisis of housing supply and on-going criticism of the slow pace of approvals by State and local government.
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Building more homes where people want to live and where infrastructure costs less
$0.00The NSW Productivity Commissioner has recently published two reports on housing affordability. He reported that housing supply in NSW has not kept up with increases in demand, resulting in consistent upward pressure on house prices and rents. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment estimates NSW will require approximately 900,000 additional dwellings by 2041.
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Good metropolitan governance – Lessons from North America
$0.00Professor Ed Blakely will describe the best and worst features of the US regional approach and what we might adopt here in Sydney as a potential direction for planning our region.
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Barangaroo – The greater public good?
$0.00Controversial from the start, the development of Barangaroo has been the subject of continuous planning changes and deals between the State Government and the private sector developers. It has been shaped by seven premiers (Coalition 4 to ALP 3) and seven planning ministers, some serving more than once. The original, international competition winning scheme, of which Philip was one of the authors, was abandoned in favour of an evolving design yielding ever more floor space and hence developer revenue to the State. So how has it turned out so far? What problems are still to be faced? What if anything can be changed for the good at this late stage? Philip, whose views on the development are probably well known, will explore the history of the project, its key shaping factors and his view about the future of the area.
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Better Building Regulation or Better Buildings?
$0.00In 2018 following the Opal Tower partial collapse, a summary report entitled Building Confidence (otherwise known as the Shergold-Weir report for the two lawyers who authored it) looked at “improving the effectiveness of compliance and enforcement systems for the building and construction industry across Australia”. It didn’t directly address the quality of construction, but “compliance and enforcement” to get there. The NSW government then moved to further regulate the building industry through a Building Commissioner, David Chandler. Tone believes that his demands that architects, engineers, and certifiers act as ‘building police’ was attacking the wrong end of the problem. This raises the questions about whether increased regulation has improved building quality and at whose expense. Join us for this follow up to our last talk on the Opal Tower saga.
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The Opal Tower Saga
$0.00Shady will talk about the process of regaining a home for himself and other residents, what lessons were learned, what help was given and by whom. His story is a cautionary tale for the prospective buyers of new apartments and also the owners of older apartments. Shady will be in discussion with Chairman Michael Neustein.
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The Promise of the City
$0.00Join AIUS for a lively discussion with Emeritus Professor David Wilmoth, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of RMIT University. David was Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design and Construction at RMIT in charge of programs in planning, architecture, building and construction economics and interior architecture during his nearly 17 years at the university. Earlier in his career he was a Director of what is now DPIE (too many name changes to track back) after working at DURD which younger members will recognise as the Department of Urban and Regional Development in the Whitlam government.
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NSW Smart Places – Reshaping digital enablement for inclusive planning
$0.00- How is digital enablement and innovation reshaping inclusive planning?
- How is NSW planning to deliver outcomes for the citizens and businesses through Smart Places?
- How can local communities and institutions engage with the Smart Places Programme?
To find out how the NSW Government is supporting urban innovation and digital enablement in place-making and precinct activation, join AIUS and the NSW Smart Places team for a presentation and a Q&A panel. Hear about the Smart Places Acceleration Program and funding to encourage local goverment, NGOs, and institutions to undertake pilot projects. -
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Planning Better Places for NSW
$0.00Join John Mant and Michael Neustein as they discuss their proposed NSW Better Places Act and their plans to bring the NSW planning system into the digital 21st century. Starting from an analysis of what’s wrong with our existing planning regime, John and Michael will explore their solutions to the problems that confront developers, applicants, planners, architects and especially the community. Is it possible to restore trust in the NSW planning system? Can we create better places? How do we deal with the parallel demands for flexibility and certainty? How can we create a system which is responsive to community whilst still delivering on urban development to accommodate a growing city?
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Killing Sydney – Author Elizabeth Farrelly
$0.00Elizabeth's signature sharp, erudite and conversational style is plentifully evident in Killing Sydney. She imparts a message that is part-lovesong, part-warning about the home city she adores, covering the history of Sydney's soaring civic buildings and unique public spaces, its present reality of housing crisis and near-continual development – including the human and urban impact of ongoing projects WestConnex, NorthConnex and the F6 Extension, the Powerhouse relocation, the Packer casino, the light rail relocation, the sale of heritage buildings like the Sirius for private apartments, and Darling Harbour – and laying down the gauntlet for its protection as a green, beautiful, affordable and accessible heritage city.
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Engaging Vancouver for a Post-Pandemic City Plan
$0.00What are the issues in Vancouver’s post-pandemic planning? How did the city and SFU work together with the community to solve issues? What are the lessons for other cities, eg Sydney?
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The emergence of ‘place-based’ planning and the complexity of the city
$0.00Planning system reform is a topic that arises at least every decade. No minister has been better qualified to review the planning system than Minister Stokes. He has put planning system reform on the agenda for discussion and will talk about aspects such as what parts of the system really beg reform, how it could be done, should it be radical or gradual and what community support could be expected. Churchill said that one should never waste a good crisis and perhaps now is the ideal time to contemplate what would be considered too difficult in other times.
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Planning system reform in a time of pandemic
$0.00Planning system reform is a topic that arises at least every decade. No minister has been better qualified to review the planning system than Minister Stokes. He has put planning system reform on the agenda for discussion and will talk about aspects such as what parts of the system really beg reform, how it could be done, should it be radical or gradual and what community support could be expected. Churchill said that one should never waste a good crisis and perhaps now is the ideal time to contemplate what would be considered too difficult in other times.
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City BriefingConstruction: The state we’re in
$50.00What characteristics will buildings of the future need to be both sustainable and resilient? Professor Sara Wilkinson of UTS will discuss current issues of sustainability and resilience in a time of cladding and construction failures. Who will/can pay for the current rash of building failures? How are we to deal with current issues while future proofing our built environment at a time of furious construction activity? Sara’s research has never been more pertinent to the situation in Sydney as we near the end of 2019. Join us for an insider’s view of property and construction issues.
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SeminarDecentralisation – Flogging A Dead Horse?
$50.00Our speakers will touch on 20th century efforts by governments to break the capital city dominance and assess the likelihood of the pattern changing. This debate is given added impetus by the Federal Government’s proposals to send new immigrants to regional centres. How can they be sustained by flagging regional economies?
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SeminarThe challenge of planning in a democratic society
$50.00There are many examples of influential planning by authoritarian regimes — think of Parisian boulevards — but the task of achieving good planning through public participatory systems is much more difficult. How then should we define successful planning in a democratic society? And for whom should the benefits be aimed? Our speakers will be examining such challenging questions.
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City BriefingClimate change resilience – the practical approach
Climate change is much discussed and many predictions are made of its impact. Sea level rise is one likely consequence. How are we going to deal with higher sea levels, abandon coastal development to erosion or build sea walls and dykes? What should state and local governments do in the face of nature? How should we create resilience? Adam Davis, Technical Director - Sustainability & Resilience at AECOM, will bring his practical engineering experience to describe strategic and on-the-ground initiatives to create climate change resilience.
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City BriefingThree Cities Plan – a status report on strategic planning for Metro Sydney
$50.00Stephanie Barker, Acting Executive Director, City Strategy, Greater Sydney Commission, will speak about local strategic planning across the Sydney metropolitan area and the implementation of the Greater Sydney Region Plan – A Metropolis of Three Cities. This will cover the new role the GSC has under the EP&A Act – providing assurance on Local Strategic Planning Statements for consistency with District Plans. All thirty-three Greater Sydney Councils are part of this program and are due to exhibit draft LSP Statements in coming months. Stephanie will reveal more about the GSC’s role and initiatives for improving State and Local Government coordination.
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City BriefingThe Sydenham to Bankstown Metro Corridor. A prospectus for inclusive renewal
$50.00Prof Bill Randolph of the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, will discuss the urban planning challenges facing those living in the Sydenham to Bankstown rail corridor, planned for urban renewal. Unlike other corridors, this one runs through one of the few low cost housing areas left within 20km of the CBD. Urban renewal will potentially displace those living there. Prof Randolph will speculate on what will happen to them and who will replace them.
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