Sprawl Repair? Planning for a city of 20-minute neighbourhoods
1 .00– 2.30pm
The notion of 20-minute neighbourhoods is appealing and simple. Everyone should be able to access daily activities within a short walk from home. The appeal has only grown with COVID-19 lockdowns, yet current planning for 20-minute neighbourhoods is ad-hoc and lacks structural guidance. Can a 20-minute neighbourhood meet all resident needs? If not, how do we prioritize the location of key community infrastructure? Can we distribute opportunities equitably and what trade-offs will be made? Asking such questions presents something of an identity crisis for 20-minute neighbourhoods, that threatens its simple appeal. In this event, we bring together a series of city planners and researchers who are tackling these questions. They share their views about how to successfully scale and integrate walkable design at the metropolitan scale.
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Endangered urban spaces: Industrial lands in Geelong, Melbourne and Sydney
2.45 – 3.45pm
Cities across Australia have rezoned a significant amount of urban industrial land, arguing that these areas are underutilized and better repurposed for new housing and office space. Yet planners, policymakers, and urban activists are rediscovering the diverse functions and roles of industrial zones in maintaining a resilient, inclusive, and creative city. Join this panel discussion on the present and future of industrial lands and their contribution to Australian urbanism.
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Urban Undercurrents: The Hidden Infrastructure of Wild Cities
4 – 5.15pm
A panel that roams, tracing the human and more-than-human entanglements of what lies beneath the city and its culture/natures. Artistic intervention, speculative proposition, community discussion—this live/digital event takes place in and between the cultural spaces of the Collingwood Yards and Collingwood Underground Carpark, inviting the audience into an experience of the city’s metaphoric and literal subterranea. What happens when climate action goes underground? How do government and industry agendas reverberate beneath our feet? What are the wild undercurrents and hidden infrastructures coursing all around—how do we encounter feral ecologies, contaminated creativity and stray ethics? And how do we make space for conversations and rituals that create the conditions for regeneration and wild life?
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Note: Headphones are recommended for this interactive panel.
In collaboration with KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture, the Alliance for Praxis Research (RMIT/Monash) and Master of Public Arts students (RMIT).
This event is part of the Festival of Urbanism – a series of talks and conversations on planning and making our cities and regions. Brought to you by the Henry Halloran Trust with the assistance of the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, in partnership with Urban Planning and Design at Monash Art, Design and Architecture.
