YPN Forum 2014 – Social Media & Urban Planning

YPN Forum 2014 – Social Media & Urban Planning

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...

Digital Technologies Are Moving Faster Than We Can Plan

“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...

Planning to get on social media? Just do it!

My latest article in the New Planner magazine looking at social media use in the planning profession. “As facilitators of urban change we should also play a role in the digital sphere by navigating discussion, fostering ideas and advocating critical...