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Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Jessie Hochberg the CEO of Nightingale Housing which is based in Melbourne Australia. Nightingale is an innovative facilitator in the housing development market bringing together housing creators (the development team)and end users at the outset of projects. Their template has much to be admired. Jessie explains the unique approach of Nightingale and the need...

Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Gavin Queit of GK Solutions ('Securing Your Tomorrow') on design measures to improve the safety of the public realm whilst improving aesthetics.

In this This Must Be the Place David has a chat with Anthony O'Donnell, one of the three authors of the book Moss Cass and the Greening of the Australian Labor Party. Cass was a minister in the Whitlam government of 1972-75 and made major inroads in the Labor party's embrace of the green movement (so, paving the way for the saving of the Franklin River in the early 80s for instance) and was respon...

Jess and Peter of PlanningXChange interview Brett Davis. Brett is the Executive Dirctor of Regional Planning at the VPA. Prior to this he was a senior Panel member at Planning Panels Victoria. A broad range of planning and design topics are covered emphasising the importance of sound regional planning. UPDATE from Liz - file now replaced with the correct file (Brett not Gavin!)

In this experimental episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth pilots a computer program named Digital Death Trip, or alternatively Trove Town Tragedy, coded by Elizabeth’s sister Sarah. The program selects a random location in Victoria, then a random ‘tragedy’ from that location using the National Library of Australia’s Trove archive of digitized newspapers, and the Trove API. The olden days ar...

In this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth speaks with RMIT’s Associate Professor Anitra Nelson about a new book, “Housing for De-Growth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities”, and a slightly less new (but still 2018) book, “Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet”. ‘Degrowth’ — a type of ‘postgrowth’ — is a political, practical and cultural movement for down-scal...

Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Geographer David Bissell about his recently released book 'Transit Life - How Commuting is changing our Cities'. David is Associate Professor at the School of Geography, Melbourne University. UPDATE - apologies from Liz, this has now been replaced with the correct file (David not Brett!)

In the wake of London’s catastrophic Grenfell Towers fire, and of local incidents including a balcony fire at Melbourne Dockland’s LaCrosse Tower, governments are increasingly acting to limit the use of Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP) and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) cladding. Also referred to as flammable or combustible cladding, use of these materials – especially in buildings over 3 levels – is...

In this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth speaks with Michael O’Neill, one of the volunteer organisers of the group “Yarra Pools”. Yarra Pools are a community-led proposal to reintroduce recreational swimming to the lower reaches of the Yarra. While swimming in the upper Yarra – Laughing Waters, Pound Bend, Warburton – is popular, swimming in the lower urban reaches is now not only rare...

In this special episode from the Planning Institute of Australia national congress, UBC co-founder and National Award Winner for Planning Excellence, Tony Matthews (@drtonymatthews), chats with fellow award winner, Thomas Gardiner, Young Planner of the Year. Thomas, a graduate of the Griffith University planning program, reflects on his success on the national stage, life in regional Australia and...

Podcasts from Perth: A UBC Special Edition from the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress 2018. In this special episode from the 2018 Planning Institute of Australia national congress, UBC co-founders Paul Maginn (@planographer) and Tony Matthews (@drtonymatthews) were fortunate to sit down and chat with Peter Tinley, Minister for Housing, Veterans Issues and Youth and member for Willa...

Podcasts from Perth: A UBC Special Edition from the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress 2018. In this special episode from the Planning Institute of Australia national congress, UBC co-founder Tony Matthews (@drtonymatthews) chats with Chris O’Connor, an Australian planner who took his career to the USA, where he now runs a successful planning consultancy. Chris discusses his experie...

Podcasts from Perth: A UBC Special Edition from the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress 2018. In this special episode from the Planning Institute of Australia national congress, UBC co-founders Paul Maginn (@planographer) and Tony Matthews (@drtonymatthews) chat with keynote speaker Stephanus Cecil Barnard. Having seen grinding poverty, ineffective government and a lack basic service...

Podcasts from Perth: A UBC Special Edition from the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress 2018. As the share of Australia’s ageing population increases this points to an increasing number of people with dementia. Dementia is the greatest cause of disability amongst Australian senior citizens. In this special episode from the Planning Institute of Australia national congress, UBC co-fou...

Podcasts from Perth: A UBC Special Edition from the Planning Institute of Australia National Congress 2018. (@drtonymatthews) put on their bicycle helmets and clips and take a ride with James Thoem and Michael Wexler, from Copenhagenize Design Co in the first of a series of special podcasts from the 2018 Planning Institute of Australia’s National Congress held in Perth from 9-11th May. James and M...

Musicians, memoirs and maps: a bookish Curtin-side chat with Sarah Taylor and Sam Whiting. In this episode of This Must be The Place Elizabeth is joined by Sam Whiting, a PhD candidate and lecturer in popular culture in the school of Media and Communications at RMIT; and by Dr Sarah Taylor (Elizabeth’s sister), who recently completed a PhD on the historical geography of live music in Sydney and Me...

What role does the government play in facilitating displacement through transit-led development? We often hear about the role of the private sector, private landlords, and the purchasing power of individual real estate buyers in urban renewal, gentrification and displacement debates. The planning of new transit systems and overheating housing markets has renewed interest in understanding the role...

Outdoor advertising & cities: In this installment of PlanningxChange Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Ged Hart manager of TOM P/L (Total Outdoor Media). Outdoor advertising is a prominent and sometimes derided feature of cities. Ged talks about the role of outdoor in 'public messaging' and suggests that traditional views of outdoor are outdated. This is because in some instances Government t...

Research on cars, parking, & travel planning in Melbourne apartment buildings: With Chris De Gruyter. How do people in Melbourne apartments travel? How often do they drive cars, or use public transport? How much parking is enough? Can planning influence this? Such questions are often debated in the planning system (and beyond). However, there is little data available on the observed travel behavio...

In New York, where anything’s possible, the privatisation of Manhattan's Central Park is even stranger than fiction. I imagine that few people would choose to travel back in time to visit the run down and quite frankly often dangerous Central Park of 1970s Manhattan. But many people don't realise that a casual and relatively safe stroll through Central Park today has come at significant cost to th...

On changing rooms, changing boundaries, and change makers: Retirement thoughts with Michael Buxton. In this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth corners son-to-be Emeritus Professor Michael Buxton just before his retirement from RMIT after around 20 years. Michael describes his move to academia from state government, and as someone who has been closely involved in local government politics....

The utopian visions of architects, planners, philosophers and sociologists are important speculative projects. We take a deep dive into the idea of utopia with Professor Danilo Palazzo, who calls on us to become utopians. “We are all utopians, as soon as we wish for something different and stop playing the part of the faithful performer or watchdog”, argued Henri Lefebvre. Cities have often been u...

Contemporary Landscape Architecture: in this episode of new UBC members PlanningxChange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview landscape architect Tim Vernon of the CDA Design Group. Tim talks about the changes in the profession since he started in the mid 1980's, the influence of travel, sources of inspiration and the contemporary challenges (and joys) of landscape architecture. For more details...

What do planning podcast people do all day? This Must be the Place meets Planning Xchange. This episode of This Must Be The Place is a four-way conversation between David and Elizabeth; and the hosts of another Melbourne planning-related podcast – Planning Xchange (or ‘PX’). PX is a new member of the Urban Broadcast Collective. PX hosts Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell are both practicing planners, an...

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