September 2011 - Urban Design Forum

Good design case studies inspire at Melbourne Open House

Celebrating its fourth year, Melbourne Open House provided the public with a free and rare opportunity to explore some of Melbourne’s cherished buildings and landmarks. The Department of Planning and…

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Shaping the Gold Coast – our evolving coastal metropolis

A delivery and operating consortium for the Gold Coast Rapid Transit (GCRT) project has now been appointed. To harness one of the most significant committed public transport projects in the…

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Where Queensland connects…with the world

In May this year the Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) launched a national design competition to seek creative responses for a Property Master Plan that respects the framework of the existing…

Design…who needs it?

Is design a luxury? There is an idea that it is. This is the idea of design as material, details, gimmicks and gizmos. In many cases, these elementscanbealuxury,notanecessity.Ifwe think about…

Recognise urban design

United Nations Habitat has been following professionalism closely since one of its four themes is Urban Design. Lessons can be learned from Netherlands, UK, Sweden, and New Zealand. The 2010…

Recognise urban design

To accredit or not to accredit is an all or nothing issue. So far throughout the nation we have left the picking of urban designers to the ‘buyer beware’ notion.…

Recognise urban design

It comes as no surprise to me that both the Institute of Landscape Architects and the Planning Institute have initiated forms of professional recognition for urban designers. There has been…

Urban designers – to register or not to register?

In May 2011, the National Council of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects agreed that the AILA Registration Scheme is to be expanded to cover other areas of practice. In…

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Churchill Fellowship for play yards

UDFQ 95: September 2011 Tanya is a Sydney urban designer and was the principal author of Landcom’s recently published Residential Design Guide. Her Fellowship study aims to inform policymakers and…

Mapping critical territory: SA’s Integrated Design Commission

At a recent Property Council lunch, Premier Mike Rann observed that ‘one of the most important initiatives to emerge since the launch of the 30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide is…