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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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SeminarThe Density Challenge
$60.00Sydney’s building boom of the last three years has been very obvious, particularly the rash of apartment buildings between the CBD and the airport. This and its somewhat lesser counterparts elsewhere have reduced Australian house ownership from 70 to 60 per cent of residences in not much more than ten years. While some regard the replacement and ultimate demise of the quarter-acre block as inevitable in the need for space and transport efficiency, others are less sanguine as comfortable suburbia is threatened by strips or clumps of high-rise, as along the Pacific Highway on the North Shore. The speakers will expose these developments and differences.
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SeminarPlanning for Population
$60.00Growing population has been the basis of Australia’s development for more than two centuries, most of all in the main cities. The substantial increase in the number of migrants over the last 20 years has seen considerable pressure on urban residential densities and on all forms of infrastructure. The themes chosen by our three speakers will be explored in discussion and extended as desired. The Planning Department’s William Hughes will join the speakers for this purpose.
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City BriefingThe reality of securing future transport corridors
$20.00Geoff oversees the team within Transport NSW responsible for long-term corridor protection for passenger and freight railways and motorways. This involves a complex process of recommending alignments, integrating land use planning and environmental assessments, securing funding for land acquisition, engaging with community and other interested parties, and securing government support for corridor protection.
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City BriefingUrban form and spatial demographics
$20.00Former NSW Government Architect Peter Poulet discusses how Sydney will look with seven million people.
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City BriefingSydney Metro Northwest update and place making presentation
$20.00Ivan Glavinic will provide an update regarding Sydney Metro Northwest, discuss the integration of metro services and the development of new vibrant station precincts.
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SeminarThe future of bricks and mortar retailing: have we reached the end of Main Street?
$60.00From the Agora to the shopping mall, bricks and mortar shopping has been central to the experience of urban life. The shopping strip has been an essential part of urban form, the mall is synonymous with the automobile age. Shopping is an economic and social interaction that brings life, character, diversity and cachet to the central arcades and suburban strips of our cities. Now with the incursion of Amazon and other on-line retailers, changing consumer preferences and shifting modes of transport and settlement, the future of bricks and mortar retailing is under threat. Our speakers will give us an indication of where to now.
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