April 2009 - Urban Design Forum

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Conferences

Placed 1 May 2009 submission deadline Placed presents projects by artists, designers, architects, planners and other urbanists that are directed toward cultural innovation, action and change in Australian cities, suburbs,…

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Courses

Victoria – committed to improving design Urban Design Unit training program 2009 Now in its fourth year, the Department of Planning and Community Development’s Urban Design Training Program has been…

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Impressions of Freiburg

I wanted to see two of its new experimental housing estates, Rieslefeld and Vauban, about which I had read a great deal. Both have been realised by the City Council…

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What do urban designers have to say about the Victorian fires?

February 2009 in Victoria has been one of those months. The traditional hot weather went feral, with temperatures as high as 47OC. The fires also went feral and, slowly, the…

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Musings over lunch

View from Google earth of Linz Pichling or “Solar City” a sustainable development in Austria that now accommodates 3000 residents and has been developed by Government and the private sector…

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Planning to live in the bush

+ The protection of residential amenity and setting of standards for environmentally responsible building, siting and design needs to have high priority. The need to give particular attention to possible…

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Design help for Local Government

While the natural landscapes will repair over time, the towns will involve a massive rebuilding effort. Loss of much of the built fabric of these shires raises a number of…

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Bush fires and global warming – density of rural settlements is the real issue

These settlements we have lost, and many others like them, are essentially poorly planned, unsustainable communities in the sense that their carbon footprint is a high one. If we are…

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Planning for future development

Regional communities are passionate about their towns and are generally engaged in local planning and development issues. This can be seen as a mixed blessing for urban designers working with…

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Good urban design in small regional towns

A sense of place is one of many characteristics linked very closely to local identity. Local identity is linked to a sense of arrival. These are factors that make an…