EP 08

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Phil Heywood 

About Phil

Phil Heywood has been associated with planning in Queensland for more than thirty years, both as head of QUT’s Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture, and subsequently as a community planner, advocate and activist.

 

A Life Fellow and previous President of the Queensland PIA, he is author of Community Planning: integrating social and physical environments (2011); The Emerging Social Metropolis (1997); and Planning & Human Need (1974) as well as numerous articles on social planning, community governance, public participation and planning for truly independent societies.

 

He remains a Visiting Associate with QUT, supervising research projects and teaching planning processes and practice.

 

This Episode

• Life as a young radical at Oxford University
• Oxford during a time of great protest and political movement 
• Spending time with Stephen Hawking
• Organising the campaign for nuclear disarmament
• National service during the Independence in West Africa
• How to change the system
• Dissolving personal boundaries
• The importance of reflection
• Why we should all interact with the world

 

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

Community Planning: Integrating social and physical environments by Phil Heywood

The Emerging Social Metropolis: Successful Planning Initiatives in Five New World Metropolitan Regions by Phil Heywood

Planning & Human Need by Phil Heywood 

 

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