Dec 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last week I gave a talk on Urban Planning and Social Media at the NSW Department of Planning and Environment Young Professionals Network Forum. “In 2013, Australians were one of the highest users per capita of smartphones in the world. We’re more connected than...
Oct 9, 2014 | Urban Planning
“In 1990 the first issue of New Planner, a magazine of the NSW Division of the Planning Institute of Australia, was published. It reviewed a recent seminar on infrastructure spending with the opening headline, ‘How to pay for roads, pipes, wires’. In the same...
Sep 29, 2014 | Creative Cities, Economic Development, Smart Phone, Social Media, Tactical Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urban Trends
Last week I attended the PIA QLD Conference on the Gold Coast and presented a talk titled ‘The City as a GIF: Where Every Second Counts’. In so many places around the world, there’s a growing convergence of digital tech in physical space. It’s...
Jul 16, 2014 | Photography, Urban Planning
It’s been a crazy few weeks. A dozen cities, 8 countries and too-many-to-count espressos later, I’m returning back to Sydney next week and ready to hit the ground running, amongst other things, for Idea Bombing Part 1 at Object Gallery. I’ll be...
Apr 2, 2014 | Architecture, Sustainability, Urban Planning, Urban Trends
I was recently contacted by Archi Ninja to write an article on the DIY Urbanism course I co-lectured with Laura Crommelin earlier in the year. The course titled ‘Contemporary Issues in Urbanism’ explored the DIY concept by focusing on Sydney and Detroit....
