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Placemakers of the World, Unite! A Placemaking Paradigm for Liveable Cities & Neighbourhoods
Placemakers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your anonymity! Architects as a profession own the design of buildings, developers as a profession own the construction of those buildings, and Engineers as a profession own the technical design of the...
ICTC Committee Member announced as first City Architect for Darebin City Council
The fast growing Darebin City Council has appointed its first city architect to ensure new developments are up to scratch. The council’s new city architect, Munir Vahanvati, has a background in architecture and urban design with experience in overcoming design quality...
Neglected Quarter to a Colourful Jewel: A Place Led Transformation
With community visioning at its heart this case study showcases an effective place making program that capitalises on repositioning an important cultural precinct in an area earmarked for redevelopment. The City of Greater Dandenong in Victoria’s south east took the...
Townsville Liveability Study
Community engagement for planning is traditionally a time consuming and expensive process. Qualitative inputs are received from interested community members, these are then analysed and filtered by consultants to produce a report summarising the community’s...
Canning City Centre, WA – Delivering urban renewal in an ever sprawling city
Urban sprawl increasingly eats into our coastal and bushland around Perth every year. Far from building the Australian dream of the future, we have created houses crammed together in soulless and remote suburbs, whilst our inner urban areas lack the required amenity...
East Village at Knutsford: supercharging sustainable residential development
Located in the port city of Fremantle, East Village at Knutsford is set to become Western Australia’s most innovative new residential development – elevating energy efficiency and sustainability to levels that will set new industry benchmarks through cutting-edge...
When Public Transport Threatens to Divide a Town Centre
The Town of Claremont is recognised as a premier western suburb of metropolitan Perth, a place of great beauty, history and heritage, with a Town Centre and retail experience fitting for this type of location. In recent years the development of hundreds of new high...
Creating Cities of Villages: A Return to People-Focused, Walkable Settlements
The future is here. Australia is being transformed by a growing population and the need for a new generation of compact town centres and ambitious new cities designed around people, not cars, for maximum connection, sustainability and liveability. These...
Greening the Greyfields – using smart tools to transform our neighbourhoods together
Population forecasts across the next 10 years indicate Maroondah will gain 500 new households annually. To ensure we can provide for this growth Maroondah City Council is developing innovative ways to protect our valued natural environment while enabling more intense...
Project Robin Hood – when the community decides how to spend public funds
Launched in 2013, Project Robin Hood is a program where the community develop and deliver projects that help build better places. It could be a growers market to sell or share produce from your garden, a pop-up crafters session in an old unused space, revitalising a...
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