How will our new cities be conceived and our existing ones adapted, re-designed and managed.
The conference will focus on a variety of themes and topics:
- Growth
- Demographic change
- Housing diversity and affordability
- Settlement patterns
- Preparedness
- Resilience
- Infrastructure and sustainability in the "New" Australia
- Transport system requirements
- Energy efficient building design
- Effective governance and leadership
- Sustainable higher density development
- Renewable development
- Managing the carbon footprint of new and existing cities
- The future of public spaces
- Food and resource vulnerability
Do we have the resources to sustain a 40% increase in population and what is the optimum number Australia can manage. Do we have a plan to absorb rapid cultural change and what nation can we use as role model?
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Melbourne
What are the key issues facing Australia over the next 40 years if the population is to increase by 30 - 40%? If life as we know it is to change forever, what can we expect the new one to look like? How do we engage with communities to support the significant changes that will be required to mold the "New Australia"? How do we reconcile our desire to reduce our carbon footprint, with the reality that it will increase significantly in building and maintaining a bigger Australia?
ReplyDeleteWe need to engage with the affordable housing sector, the challenge lies in creating a meaningful partnership between all tiers of Government, the Development Industry, Planning Professionals and the Finance Sector... no small task! There are a handful of very good companies in Australia working in this field who could make a valuable contribution to the debate at the conference. One I can recomend is http://www.ahsolutions.com.au
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The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has partnered with the organisers of the 3rd International Urban Design Conference for this concurrent.
The title, Grey to Green - Urban Design/Green Infrastructure reflects the current priorities for the profession as well as align with similar policy moves overseas - such as by CABE in the UK.
This conference session is focused around issues of urban landscape, principally:
◦ how we provide for essential life-supporting landscape capacity within our existing and future built environments, in the context of local, national & global sustainable settlement imperatives.
◦ the role and performance of landscape in relation to the social, environmental and economic outcomes of urban design,
◦ the role and potential of landscape-based strategies to value-add to climate adaptation solutions, particularly in relation to broader sustainability objectives.
The term ‘green infrastructure’ describes the network of natural landscape assets which underpin the economic, socio-cultural and environmental functionality of our cities and towns – i.e. the green spaces and water systems which intersperse, connect and provide vital life support for humans and other species within our urban environments.
vists http://www.aila.org.au for more information
Paul Costigan
Executive Director
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
The nation managed to bring in immigrants to build the Snowy Scheme and put up cheap housing that is still being utilised in Cooma today. Admittedly the narrow streets these houses front, and lack of curb and guttering makes the area seem like a rabbit warren, however we managed to integrate a flood of different nationalities in the 1960s, be proud of this diversity through the years and celebrate it today - why can't we manage this in the 2000s?
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