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How events and sports tourism drive the local economy
Coffs Coast…Where Champions Play Events enrich the lives of everyone who live on the Coffs Coast and also attract an increasing number of visitors. Coffs Harbour City Council’s City Prosperity group has aligned economic development, tourism, events strategies...
Wonderwalls Festival
Established in Wollongong in 2012, Wonderwalls stands as Australia’s largest and longest running street art festival. Wonderwalls has delivered in excess of 140 murals by more than 120 artists from around the world. Wonderwalls has a proven ability to deliver a multi...
City of Parramatta’s Transformation
The City of Parramatta has undergone a complete transformation over the last few years. In 2017/18, Council’s Land Use Planning team integrated the Local Environment Plans (LEP) from the five Councils that existed prior to 12 May 2016. That financial year, City of...
Building Bayswater: Preliminary Community Engagement for the City’s Local Planning Strategy
Between November 2017 and March 2018, the City of Bayswater, in partnership with consultants Shape Urban, carried out the Building Bayswater Project to involve the community in the development of the Local Planning Strategy (LPS). The LPS sets out the long term...
Randwick City Night Time Economy Strategy: An Integrated Approach to Planning for Diverse and Dynamic Night Life
A thriving night time economy offers substantial socio-economic benefits, from boosting economic development, fostering community inclusion and resilience, to enhancing the place making potential of our cities. In recognition of these benefits, Randwick City Council...
The Curated Retail Experience
It’s no secret that retail has fundamentally shifted over the past few years. With the rise in online retailing and speed of delivery, we no longer need to go to shopping centres to buy things – we go there for choice. But humans want to connect, to socialise, to...
Love Where You Live
Love Where You Live: How Key City Elements Come Together to Create the Places that Help us Thrive This year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) undertook citizen research across Australia to ask the question: “Do you love where you live?”. The results of this research seeks...
Natalie Malligan takes Uber’s tech to the sky down under
Uber has announced Natalie Malligan as the Head of Uber Air for Australia, where she will be responsible for making Uber’s ambitious urban aviation plans a reality. Natalie previously worked in Uber’s ridesharing business as Head of Cities for Australia and New...
Palmer Street – The Street of Eating
Palmer Street - the street of eating The street has recently been refurbished with new lighting, pavements, seating and street trees. Through collaboration with different partners, this street has become an example of stakeholder collaboration using sustainable energy...
Placemaking Masterclass at ICTC 2019
A masterclass on best-practice placemaking with world renowned expert Ethan Kent from Project for Public Spaces (PPS), New York City. Participants will walk away with new ideas and collaborative insights for building people powered places and strengthening...
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