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Bryce Raworth is a conservation consultant and architectural historian who has developed a practice in relation to these matters over the past 25 years. Major areas of interest include the conservation of historic buildings and their fabric and town planning issues relating to heritage overlay policies.

Nicola Smith is a private consultant planner and Director of Niche Planning Studio. She has experience across three states of Australia as a land development manager, consultant, local government statutory planner and state government policy writer. She has a thirst for knowledge, is passionate about innovation in planning through social media and supports a strong mentoring system within our prof...

Melanie Lowe is a PhD student and research assistant within the Place, Health and Liveabilty Research Program at the McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. Her research examines how to plan urban environments that support the social determinants of health. Melanie is also Co-chair of the Australasian Early Career Urban Res...

Rose Iser is a former Councillor for the Moonee Valley City Council and past president of the Victorian Local Governance Association. She has worked as an advisor to State and Federal MP's from Labour and the Greens. She campaigned for many years against the East-West Link and is a writer, lawyer, teacher and a fan of digital communication.

Jonathan Gardiner is a Director at Cox Architecture, a national architectural and urban design practice. His interest is in the development of future cities, and the positive role that public spaces and buildings as well as urban design can have in this process. His projects include AAMI Park in Melbourne, the North Melbourne Railway Station and the recently completed Adelaide Oval.

Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age, where he has worked since 2005 covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations. Before that he worked on local newspapers in Melbourne, as a sub-editor on The Jakarta Post, and as a city guidebook writer for Lonely Planet.

Andrew is a Director of Culture Crteativity Place Ltd and works with culture and place to transform cities. Andrew was involved in the regeneration of Newcastle Gateshead in the UK and was previous Programme Director of the World Summit on Arts and Culture. Andrew has become a specialist in repositioning cities through culture.

Cameron is a Director of Canopi Homes, a development firm specialising in small footprint housing. Previously an executive with Stockland and Mirvac. He has a passion for design and community trends in housing and city development.

Dr Stephen Rowley is a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT. Stephen has recently had published 'Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood's Ideal Communities'. He is a planner who has worked at Local and State Government levels. For several years he was editor of Victorian Planning News.

Jane is a doyen of sense and sensibility. She has promoted principles of fairness, aesthetic pleasure and purpose into the Victorian planning system over several decades.

Stuart Morris QC: Stuart has held a range of high profile positions within the planning world including President of VCAT and as a Supreme Court Judge. He is an astute observer of city trends.

Chris is a partner at Deep End Services. He is an Australian expert in retail trends, catchments and spatial requirements. He talks of changing retail dynamics and the effect on traditional shopping centres.

A Director of Message Consultants, Tim has been at the forefront of planning innovation for decades. He combines a deep knowledge of design aesthetics with a down to earth charm.

Jo is a Director of progressive consuitancy SALT3, specialising in traffic and waste engineering solutions. With extensive knowledge of traffic and transport engineering, Jo has been involved in infrastructure projects across Australia. She is passionate about creating healthy workplace cultures.

As a founder of Orbit Solutions in 1999, Chris has developed a successful approach to architectural services. Chris brings experience gained through working closely with Directors of Australia's most successful Architectural and Planning practices. As an expert witness in visual amenity evidence, he has worked on hundreds of projects adjudicated at the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal, Plan...

Brian is a best-selling author, futurist, thought leader and is regarded by corporate Australia as the leading economic and strategic advisor operating in the property sector locally and internationally. Brian established MacroPlan Australia (renamed MacroPlan Dimasi in 2012) in 1985 and specialises in business and property strategy, forecasting of future trends, facilitation of strategic outcomes...

David Song and Daniel Bowden are Directors of Song Bowden Town Planning. They are both regularly engaged to provide advice on a variety of town planning matters and are both well recognised in the industry as they regularly appear at the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) or Planning Panels Victoria as Planning Advocates or Expert Witnesses. This is the very first double interview by P...

Nick has been a Barrister for more than 18 years. He practices mainly in the fields of planning and environmental law and regularly appears in VCAT, Panels and in major infrastructure hearings. Nick was appointed Senior Counsel in November 2013. Nick is from Western Australian, is an avid Dockers supporter and a Nick Cave fan and plays in a series of bands.

John is a planning icon of Australia and is of course the Founding Director of Essential Economics, he is an economist, a town and regional planner and has more than 40 years of consulting experience in the industry. He is a life fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) and a fellow of the Victorian Planning Environmental Law Association (VPELA). John is an avid blues and roots music fa...