The article was wriiten by Peter Newman, who is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and is on the Board of Infrastructure Australia that is funding infrastructure for the long term sustainability of Australian cities. He has recently returned from a North American tour promoting his two new books Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change and Green Urbanism Down Under, both written with Tim Beatley.
"The need for a federal response to sustainability has been growing and should a be critical part of the Gillard Government’s new term. The bipartisan House of Representatives Environment Committee wrote an exceptional report in 2005 called Sustainable Cities.1 It had a series of very good strategies and policy suggestions – most of which have not been implemented"
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Changes for Queensland planning after Cabinet shake-up
Changes for Queensland planning after Cabinet shake-up: "Queensland's Department of Infrastructure and Planning no longer exists and has become the Department of Local Government and Planning, following Cabinet reshuffle."
Designing to heal: Planning and urban design responses to disaster and conflict.
Ms Jenny Donovan, David Lock Associates
The UN Environment Program estimate that since 2000 the world has witnessed over 35 major conflicts and 2500 disasters (UNEP undated). This paper will explore what happens to communities that suffer disasters, either natural or man-made and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovering. The paper will focus on the relationship that people have with their surroundings and how that relationship changes when those surroundings are destroyed and the people they shared them with are killed or displaced. It will seek to shed some light on the disruption, trauma, loss of hope and the changed emotional landscape that can result when a community’s social and physical infrastructure no longer functions.
The paper will suggest a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives and shed some light on how can planners and urban designers respond sensitively to this process and help create the optimal conditions for people to put their lives back together, reforge the bonds of community and meet their own needs.
This will be illustrated with reference to “real world” examples of responding to disasters. This will include the author’s own experience from Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland as well as studies of other communities that have been traumatised by a diverse range of disasters.
This abstract has been submitted for the 4th International Urban Design Conference.
Submit your abstract to speak at the conference here now.
Jenny Donovan is a director and a principal at Melbourne-based urban design and town planning practice, David Lock Associates. She has also worked for the United Nations and other bodies in post-conflict and post-disaster rebuilding in Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Northern Ireland.
The UN Environment Program estimate that since 2000 the world has witnessed over 35 major conflicts and 2500 disasters (UNEP undated). This paper will explore what happens to communities that suffer disasters, either natural or man-made and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovering. The paper will focus on the relationship that people have with their surroundings and how that relationship changes when those surroundings are destroyed and the people they shared them with are killed or displaced. It will seek to shed some light on the disruption, trauma, loss of hope and the changed emotional landscape that can result when a community’s social and physical infrastructure no longer functions.
The paper will suggest a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives and shed some light on how can planners and urban designers respond sensitively to this process and help create the optimal conditions for people to put their lives back together, reforge the bonds of community and meet their own needs.
This will be illustrated with reference to “real world” examples of responding to disasters. This will include the author’s own experience from Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland as well as studies of other communities that have been traumatised by a diverse range of disasters.
This abstract has been submitted for the 4th International Urban Design Conference.
Submit your abstract to speak at the conference here now.
Jenny Donovan is a director and a principal at Melbourne-based urban design and town planning practice, David Lock Associates. She has also worked for the United Nations and other bodies in post-conflict and post-disaster rebuilding in Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Northern Ireland.
Flood proof, fire proof cyclone proof? In your dreams | The Fifth Estate
By Leon Gettler
3 February 2011 – Adapting to floods, bushfires, and cyclones will not be cheap. Engineers say infrastructure cannot be made totally invulnerable, only resilient. But that will add to the cost. In the wake of extreme weather events, property may well become more expensive, at least in the short term...more
Flood proof, fire proof cyclone proof? In your dreams The Fifth Estate
3 February 2011 – Adapting to floods, bushfires, and cyclones will not be cheap. Engineers say infrastructure cannot be made totally invulnerable, only resilient. But that will add to the cost. In the wake of extreme weather events, property may well become more expensive, at least in the short term...more
Flood proof, fire proof cyclone proof? In your dreams The Fifth Estate
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