▸ Senior Planner in the Facilities Branch of QUT
▸ Urban Design Brief for Lamington Dve
▸ Problem before solution - Audit
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
▸ Placecheck
▸ Facebook – Lamington Dve
▸ Bring a hard copy of this checklist next week
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
▸ Memory Map of the Drive (1 A3 Panel)
▸ Site Plan (1 A3 Panel at Scale)
▸ Site Characteristics (1 or 2 A3 panels)
▸ Site Ideas (1 or 2 A3 panels)
▸ Conclusions (1 A3 panel)
▸ Recommendations (1 A3 panel).
UNEARTHING LAMINGTON DVE
PLANNING + URBAN DESIGN + PLACEMAKING
Elizabeth St, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
INTRODUCTIONS
▸ Introduce yourself to
your colleague so they
can ‘present you’
▸ Their Name
▸ How do they feel about
Lamington Dve
▸ Favourite urban place in
Brisbane
Given Tce, Paddington, Bne, QLD, AUS
Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
Queen Street Mall - Brisbane, City, QLD, AUS
Little Stanley St, South Bank, South Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1728 Map of Rome, by Giambattista Nolli
//www.theblueroom.net.au/storage/nolli_06.jpg&imgrefurl
1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101
More Information
Place Values
Place Qualities
Outcomes
Place Typology
Place process
Place roles
Toolkit - placemaking ideas
Links+ conclusions
OUR FOCUS
What+Why
How+Who
Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN
▸ Town Planning
▸ Strategic Planning and Urban Design
Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN
▸ Local Area Planning
▸ Development Assessment or Place
Facilitation
▸ Urban Design
Musk Ave - Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN
▸ Government Facilities and
Infrastructure
Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN
▸ Social Fabric
1.2 URBAN DESIGN V URBAN DESIGNERS
Adelaide St, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.2 URBAN DESIGN
Uruk (4,000–3100 BC)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uruk_Archaealogical_site_at_Warka,_Iraq_MOD_45156521.jpg
BP City Road, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
THE VILLAN
▸ Urban design creates authentic, sustainable and
quality places for people across the range of urban
environments.
Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?
Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
1.1 OUR (OLD) PROTOCOL
▸ http://www.urbandesign.gov.au/
▸ It is concerned with the arrangement, appearance
and function of our suburbs, towns and cities.
▸ It is both a process and an outcome of creating
localities in which people live, engage with each
other, and the physical place around them.
▸ It involves many different disciplines.
▸ It operates from the macro to the micro scale.
▸ It influences economics, the physical scale and
the social and cultural nature of a locality
▸ It is a long-term process that continues to evolve
over time.
1.1 INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
Alan + Lindy’s house (my street) – Brisbane, QLD
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
Stanhope Gardens – Sydney, NSW
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
1.2 RANGE OF PUBLIC SPACE
NEW CITY LIFE Jan Gehl
▸ Urban stroll ways: boulevards, avenues, streets
▸ Main city space: squares, frame events
▸ Local city space: playing and staying
▸ Ceremonial city: seats of power, celebrations
▸ Deserted city space: large surfaces few activities
▸ Transport hubs: dominated by people in transit
▸ Green city spaces: variety of uses
▸ Staged city space: staged sensory experiences
▸ Temporary city space
▸ Aquatic city space
▸ Waterfront city space: access to views and water; and
▸ City space for play and sport: permanent specialised equipment
Subiaco, Perth, WA, AUS
1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE
▸ William H Whyte :
“It is difficult to design
a space that will not
attract people.
What is remarkable is
how often this has
been accomplished .”
Melton, VIC, AUS
" I don't like brick walls so i am just going to Tag ! "
1.5 URBAN DESIGNERS
▸ Cannot be an authority
▸ Experts in integrating
information and ideas:
▸ site
▸ users
▸ team
▸ client
▸ stakeholders
▸ community
South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
1.6 URBAN DESIGN AND FORM
▸ Built form influences our
use and appreciation of place
▸ buildings (location, shape and
size)
▸ structures and;
▸ quality of spaces.
Wellard – Perth, WA
http://www.thevillageatwellard.com.au/Wellard.aspx
The hierarchy of form
Urban Initiatives 2003
1.6 URBAN DESIGN – CLIVE ALCOCK
Coronation St, Bardon, QLD, AUS
1.3 PLACEMAKING
▸ “Placemaking is enabling and
empowering people to create place”
1. Standard Placemaking: incremental,
project based
2. Strategic Placemaking: city scale
projects and strategies
3. Creative Placemaking: arts and
culture
4. Popup Placemaking: tactical, guerilla
What type of Placemaking is best for
your situation?
ENABLING
Warner Way, Caroline Springs, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
EMPOWERING
Royal Croquet Club, Victoria Square, Adelaide City, SA, AUS
THE VILLIAN?
'City of Light' by the Hilltop Hoods
I'm from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla,
Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer...
Cans and markers, Country Road parkers,
Hands of an artist left the landscape enchanted,
Until the government pigs had all the paint washed,
From our city walls, end of the renaissance,
And so walls where the colours once played,
Were replaced by the buff, now a sullen blunt grey,
White washed, shitty, all grey, all black,
Waiting for the kids of this city to take their walls
back.
Woodsons Lane, Adelaide City, SA, AUS
CHANGE IS HAPPENING
1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
“Urban design is not just
about physical form, but
lived experience as well.
It has a social and
psychological dimension:
creating a sense of
continuity and
authenticity.” (Buchanan,
2009)
Walker St, Dandenong, VIC, AUS
Nocturnal - City of Greater Dandenong, VIC, AUS (Jason Edwards Photography)
1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ a feeling not a location
▸ special or unique, authentic and
belonging
▸ Engwicht Secret 1 - make
people feel at home
Gozzard St, Gungahlin, Canberra, ACT, AUS
1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Built environment
+++ features, events,
people and activities
▸ Social Fabric
▸ Emerging attributes:
opportunity, identity,
innovation, creativity,
authenticity – more
powerful attractors
Hibberson St, Gungahlin, Canberra, ACT, AUS
1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Characteristics of
successful
and highly valued
places
(Morrison Institute):
▸ quality natural
environment
▸ innovation and cultural
capacity
▸ distinctive amenities
▸ street life, “hipness”,
tolerance
▸ choice and diversity
▸ accessibility.
Kelvin Grove Urban Village, QLD, AUS
1.9 INTRODUCTION: PLACEMAKING?
Architecture is frozen music, urban planning is composition, urban design the
composer, pop-up placemaking is improvised street theatre adapted from
PPS
Parap Markets, Parap, Darwin, NT, AUS
1.9 INTRODUCTION: URBAN DESIGN V PLACEMAKING?
▸ Urban design:
▸ House
▸ Hardware
▸ New buildings and
infrastructure
▸ design
▸ space
▸ Stage
▸ Utilitarian
▸ Experts?
▸ Enables placemaking?
▸ Placemaking:
▸ Home
▸ Software
▸ Existing buildings and
places
▸ Activities
▸ place
▸ The show
▸ Social
▸ People
▸ People watchers?
LUCKY IT’S INTRINSIC
Urbne Festival, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
PEOPLE MAKING PLACES
Centre Place, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
1.8 OUR ROLE?
▸ Planners
▸ Placemakers
▸ Practioners in Urban
design
▸ Urban Designers
▸ Physical form
▸ Plus the social fabric (soft
infrastructure)
▸ Enabling
▸ Empowering
Fish Lane, West End, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
1. SUMMARY
▸ Placemaking – urban design is
one tool
▸ Range of public places
▸ Inherently collaborative and
multi-disciplinary
▸ Urban design and form
▸ Sense of place
▸ Our role is critical
Lader Tce, Varsity Lakes, QLD, AUS
SUMMARY
YOUR FAVOURITE BNE PLACE
▸ What did Planning contribute?
▸ Urban Design?
▸ Placemaking?
▸ Walking tour
MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

Wk 1 imagine planning and design

  • 1.
    ▸ Senior Plannerin the Facilities Branch of QUT ▸ Urban Design Brief for Lamington Dve ▸ Problem before solution - Audit MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
  • 2.
    ▸ Placecheck ▸ Facebook– Lamington Dve ▸ Bring a hard copy of this checklist next week MY PLACE: LAMINGTON DVE
  • 3.
    ▸ Memory Mapof the Drive (1 A3 Panel) ▸ Site Plan (1 A3 Panel at Scale) ▸ Site Characteristics (1 or 2 A3 panels) ▸ Site Ideas (1 or 2 A3 panels) ▸ Conclusions (1 A3 panel) ▸ Recommendations (1 A3 panel). UNEARTHING LAMINGTON DVE
  • 4.
    PLANNING + URBANDESIGN + PLACEMAKING Elizabeth St, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
  • 5.
    INTRODUCTIONS ▸ Introduce yourselfto your colleague so they can ‘present you’ ▸ Their Name ▸ How do they feel about Lamington Dve ▸ Favourite urban place in Brisbane Given Tce, Paddington, Bne, QLD, AUS
  • 6.
    Boundary St, WestEnd, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
  • 7.
    Queen Street Mall- Brisbane, City, QLD, AUS
  • 8.
    Little Stanley St,South Bank, South Brisbane, QLD, AUS
  • 9.
    1728 Map ofRome, by Giambattista Nolli //www.theblueroom.net.au/storage/nolli_06.jpg&imgrefurl 1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101 More Information Place Values Place Qualities Outcomes Place Typology Place process Place roles Toolkit - placemaking ideas Links+ conclusions OUR FOCUS What+Why How+Who
  • 10.
    Kelvin Grove UrbanVillage, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN ▸ Town Planning ▸ Strategic Planning and Urban Design
  • 11.
    Kelvin Grove UrbanVillage, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN ▸ Local Area Planning ▸ Development Assessment or Place Facilitation ▸ Urban Design
  • 12.
    Musk Ave -Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN ▸ Government Facilities and Infrastructure
  • 13.
    Kelvin Grove UrbanVillage, Brisbane, QLD, AUS 1.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN ▸ Social Fabric
  • 14.
    1.2 URBAN DESIGNV URBAN DESIGNERS Adelaide St, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
  • 15.
    1.2 URBAN DESIGN Uruk(4,000–3100 BC) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uruk_Archaealogical_site_at_Warka,_Iraq_MOD_45156521.jpg
  • 16.
    BP City Road,Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, AUS THE VILLAN
  • 17.
    ▸ Urban designcreates authentic, sustainable and quality places for people across the range of urban environments. Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC, AUS INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?
  • 18.
    Caroline Springs Boulevard,Caroline Springs, Melbourne, VIC, AUS 1.1 OUR (OLD) PROTOCOL ▸ http://www.urbandesign.gov.au/ ▸ It is concerned with the arrangement, appearance and function of our suburbs, towns and cities. ▸ It is both a process and an outcome of creating localities in which people live, engage with each other, and the physical place around them. ▸ It involves many different disciplines. ▸ It operates from the macro to the micro scale. ▸ It influences economics, the physical scale and the social and cultural nature of a locality ▸ It is a long-term process that continues to evolve over time.
  • 19.
    1.1 INTRODUCTION: WHATIS URBAN DESIGN?
  • 20.
    1.2 QUALITY PUBLICSPACES Alan + Lindy’s house (my street) – Brisbane, QLD
  • 21.
  • 22.
    1.2 QUALITY PUBLICSPACES Stanhope Gardens – Sydney, NSW
  • 23.
  • 24.
  • 25.
    1.2 RANGE OFPUBLIC SPACE NEW CITY LIFE Jan Gehl ▸ Urban stroll ways: boulevards, avenues, streets ▸ Main city space: squares, frame events ▸ Local city space: playing and staying ▸ Ceremonial city: seats of power, celebrations ▸ Deserted city space: large surfaces few activities ▸ Transport hubs: dominated by people in transit ▸ Green city spaces: variety of uses ▸ Staged city space: staged sensory experiences ▸ Temporary city space ▸ Aquatic city space ▸ Waterfront city space: access to views and water; and ▸ City space for play and sport: permanent specialised equipment Subiaco, Perth, WA, AUS
  • 26.
    1.2 QUALITY PUBLICSPACE ▸ William H Whyte : “It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished .” Melton, VIC, AUS
  • 27.
    " I don'tlike brick walls so i am just going to Tag ! "
  • 28.
    1.5 URBAN DESIGNERS ▸Cannot be an authority ▸ Experts in integrating information and ideas: ▸ site ▸ users ▸ team ▸ client ▸ stakeholders ▸ community South Bank, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
  • 29.
    1.6 URBAN DESIGNAND FORM ▸ Built form influences our use and appreciation of place ▸ buildings (location, shape and size) ▸ structures and; ▸ quality of spaces. Wellard – Perth, WA http://www.thevillageatwellard.com.au/Wellard.aspx The hierarchy of form Urban Initiatives 2003
  • 30.
    1.6 URBAN DESIGN– CLIVE ALCOCK
  • 31.
    Coronation St, Bardon,QLD, AUS 1.3 PLACEMAKING ▸ “Placemaking is enabling and empowering people to create place” 1. Standard Placemaking: incremental, project based 2. Strategic Placemaking: city scale projects and strategies 3. Creative Placemaking: arts and culture 4. Popup Placemaking: tactical, guerilla What type of Placemaking is best for your situation?
  • 32.
    ENABLING Warner Way, CarolineSprings, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
  • 33.
    EMPOWERING Royal Croquet Club,Victoria Square, Adelaide City, SA, AUS
  • 34.
    THE VILLIAN? 'City ofLight' by the Hilltop Hoods I'm from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla, Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer... Cans and markers, Country Road parkers, Hands of an artist left the landscape enchanted, Until the government pigs had all the paint washed, From our city walls, end of the renaissance, And so walls where the colours once played, Were replaced by the buff, now a sullen blunt grey, White washed, shitty, all grey, all black, Waiting for the kids of this city to take their walls back.
  • 35.
    Woodsons Lane, AdelaideCity, SA, AUS CHANGE IS HAPPENING
  • 36.
    1.7 SENSE OFPLACE “Urban design is not just about physical form, but lived experience as well. It has a social and psychological dimension: creating a sense of continuity and authenticity.” (Buchanan, 2009) Walker St, Dandenong, VIC, AUS
  • 37.
    Nocturnal - Cityof Greater Dandenong, VIC, AUS (Jason Edwards Photography) 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE ▸ a feeling not a location ▸ special or unique, authentic and belonging ▸ Engwicht Secret 1 - make people feel at home
  • 38.
    Gozzard St, Gungahlin,Canberra, ACT, AUS 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE ▸ Built environment +++ features, events, people and activities ▸ Social Fabric ▸ Emerging attributes: opportunity, identity, innovation, creativity, authenticity – more powerful attractors
  • 39.
    Hibberson St, Gungahlin,Canberra, ACT, AUS 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE ▸ Characteristics of successful and highly valued places (Morrison Institute): ▸ quality natural environment ▸ innovation and cultural capacity ▸ distinctive amenities ▸ street life, “hipness”, tolerance ▸ choice and diversity ▸ accessibility.
  • 40.
    Kelvin Grove UrbanVillage, QLD, AUS 1.9 INTRODUCTION: PLACEMAKING? Architecture is frozen music, urban planning is composition, urban design the composer, pop-up placemaking is improvised street theatre adapted from PPS
  • 41.
    Parap Markets, Parap,Darwin, NT, AUS 1.9 INTRODUCTION: URBAN DESIGN V PLACEMAKING? ▸ Urban design: ▸ House ▸ Hardware ▸ New buildings and infrastructure ▸ design ▸ space ▸ Stage ▸ Utilitarian ▸ Experts? ▸ Enables placemaking? ▸ Placemaking: ▸ Home ▸ Software ▸ Existing buildings and places ▸ Activities ▸ place ▸ The show ▸ Social ▸ People ▸ People watchers?
  • 43.
    LUCKY IT’S INTRINSIC UrbneFestival, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
  • 44.
    PEOPLE MAKING PLACES CentrePlace, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
  • 45.
    1.8 OUR ROLE? ▸Planners ▸ Placemakers ▸ Practioners in Urban design ▸ Urban Designers ▸ Physical form ▸ Plus the social fabric (soft infrastructure) ▸ Enabling ▸ Empowering Fish Lane, West End, Brisbane City, QLD, AUS
  • 46.
    1. SUMMARY ▸ Placemaking– urban design is one tool ▸ Range of public places ▸ Inherently collaborative and multi-disciplinary ▸ Urban design and form ▸ Sense of place ▸ Our role is critical Lader Tce, Varsity Lakes, QLD, AUS SUMMARY
  • 47.
    YOUR FAVOURITE BNEPLACE ▸ What did Planning contribute? ▸ Urban Design? ▸ Placemaking?
  • 48.
    ▸ Walking tour MYPLACE: LAMINGTON DVE

Editor's Notes

  • #2 UDC1FULL.pdf
  • #3 UDC1FULL.pdf
  • #4 UDC1FULL.pdf
  • #5 The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
  • #6 Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours? Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
  • #7 Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours? Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
  • #8 Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours? Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
  • #9 Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours? Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
  • #10 The Nolli plan (in this instance Rome) is a useful urban design tool. It shows buildings in black and the spaces in between in white. Generally the more complex the pattern the more interesting the place. Think of the pattern of your nearest big box shopping centre - box in black surrounded by hectares of white parking! What would the Nolli plan be of your favourite place?
  • #11 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #12 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #13 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #14 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #15 Urban designers do a lot (pretty similar to planners really). Urban design creates small spaces like this plaza - as well as the bigger scale projects, with design evolution explained on the next page.
  • #18 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #19 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #20 I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
  • #21 It's all about the quality of the public space - the area between the buildings (usually in public ownership) which is quickly forgotten. Lindy + Allan's house in my street contributes to the street by defining the transition from public to private space. It features an obvious front gate and low fence, front door leading to the veranda (a place for strangers out of the rain), front room is semi public (sitting room not a bedroom). Garage to the side.
  • #22 It's all about the quality of the public space - the area between the buildings (usually in public ownership) which is quickly forgotten. Lindy + Allan's house in my street contributes to the street by defining the transition from public to private space. It features an obvious front gate and low fence, front door leading to the veranda (a place for strangers out of the rain), front room is semi public (sitting room not a bedroom). Garage to the side.
  • #23 Suburban fringe residential development by Mirvac (through Landcom) which is closer to the street, two stories and not dominated by garages. Shame about the bollards?
  • #24 It does this by placing the garages at the rear of the house. A little parsley on the pig though as the rest of the estate utilises standard garages at the front which impact on the street. (WA is leading the charge in good suburban (and inner city) development).
  • #25 A good introduction to urban design – which hasn’t dated. Beautiful hand drawn illustrations of European cities by the author.
  • #26 An easy book to read (do yourself a favour and borrow it from the library!) which confirms that cities need public places with different functions. Not just deserted city spaces!
  • #27 It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street! “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
  • #28 It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street! “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
  • #29 According to Chris Melsom (HASSELL Perth) a key characteristic of urban designers is emotional intelligence. Wikipedia says that there are 2 characteristics of EI: Self-awareness – the ability to read one's emotions and recognize their impact while using gut feelings to guide decisions. Self-management – involves controlling one's emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances. Social awareness – the ability to sense, understand, and react to others' emotions while comprehending social networks. Relationship management – the ability to inspire, influence, and develop others while managing conflict. Image is a scale model of Shanghai in the Town Planning museum in a prominent location the cities central square.
  • #30 Urban design relies on built form at different scales. The plan of Wellard on the southern Perth railway line should deliver good urban design based on its structure and scale.
  • #31 Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com
  • #32 A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!). Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
  • #35 Stories like the bible or the koran have always played a critical role in our society In fact many people argue that our brains are wired to remember stories. We often tell stories about places. Particularly with songs. (click) What song is this? What place? What story does it have? What is Council doing? (click)
  • #36 Stories like the bible or the koran have always played a critical role in our society In fact many people argue that our brains are wired to remember stories. We often tell stories about places. Particularly with songs. (click) What song is this? What place? What story does it have? What is Council doing? (click)
  • #37  Great places benefit from a ‘sense of place’...
  • #38 which is broader than built form. Places tend to be our favourite parts of the city - whereas spaces tend to be dead or unsafe? A lookout along Latrobe Tce in Paddington, Brisbane – one of my favourite places (has anyone seen the TV remote?).
  • #39 Often social fabric (soft infrastructure) is critical to placemaking - the events, festivals etc The arrow marks the couch!
  • #40 The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us). Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance. Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
  • #41 I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
  • #42 I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
  • #46 So because urban design is multidisciplinary planners can not only contribute they can also lead the process. Particularly when we think creatively and work in 3 dimensions. Melbourne city square – controversially created in the 1960s with the demolition of heritage buildings and opened in 1980 by QEII. It was redeveloped from1997 to 2000 with part of the site sold for a hotel.
  • #47 The cascades in Oatlands is a landscaped pathway designed as a compromise to the existing community who didn't want a street connection. These houses relationship to the street is facilitated by rear garages.
  • #48 UDC1FULL.pdf
  • #49 UDC1FULL.pdf