Hustle & Bustle podcast

This week I interview Matthew Leman. Matt is an urban and regional planner, having graduated from QUT in 2016, and has worked across private sector, State and local governments. He is also a digital native, meaning he was born after the internet.

Matt brings a unique perspective to planning and asks “how can we ensure ‘planning’ is bought up-to-speed with current technology and consumer expectations?”

In this is episode:

- Matt surprises me with a thank you

- speaks of his personal challenges buying a suitable home to live in

- explains his experiences of interacting with planning schemes 

- speaks to the current crisis of trust

- details the opportunity for the future of planning schemes

- suggest the new approach to planning which is an Exemplary based planning system

- challenges us to look outside of planning to what we as digital consumers find easy to use and engaging & then apply that same approach to planning

Thanks so much Matt for sharing your thoughts on the podcast this week! 

* Please note: the views expressed on this episode are his own, and do not necessarily represent that of his employer.

This week on the podcast, I interview Dr Stefan Hajkowicz.

Dr Stef is Principal Scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. At CSIRO, he is Director of Data 61, leading a team of researchers helping governments, companies and communities explore plausible futures and make wise choices. Stefan is widely published in international literature, including his best seller Global Megatrends which details 7 significant shifts to influence our future.

Stefan is passionate about digital tech and it’s influence on the built environment. I asked him “How will technology reshape our cities and regions over the next decade?”. Stef unpacks this topic, observing what planners and city shapers need to know about technology changes.

We chat about:

• artificial intelligence & how planners can get computers to do the mundane tasks

It’s the longest episode on the podcast to date at about 35 minutes. But we pack alot of good info into that time!

This week I sat down with Amy Degenhart, Director of degenhartSHEDD urban design + architecture.

Amy is the driving force (architect & developer) behind exemplar missing middle housing, including ENVI micro urban village in Southport, Gold Coast CBD. ENVI is an award winning exemplary small lot house and land development, featuring 10 terrace home ranging from 1 bedroom to 3 bedrooms.

Amy shares her passion and expertise in addressing the housing supply and affordability challenge within South East Queensland, through pioneering this new typology of housing, which delivers an affordable home in an inner city location, and exemplary design outcomes.

We discuss;

• the design thinking behind Envi

I hope you enjoy this discussion!

More information on the ENVI project here:

The Micro Lot Development | Envi Micro Urban Village

In this episode, I chat with Nicole Boulton.

Nicole is Principal Planner at PSA consulting and the new Chair of the Professional development committee at Planning Institute of Australia Queensland division. 

Nicole is also a mother of 2 young children, a wife, and volunteers on her son‘s P&C Committee. 

I chat with Nicole about her new role as PD chair, as well as ask her about work life balance and she shares her top tips to juggling it all. This includes a great reminder (during mental health awareness week) to check in with yourself about your mental health. 

The main topic of this conversation is Nicole‘s passion of planning for women. Nicole shares some of her research on the key issues affecting women in cities, and what we might do to address these, including an interesting case study from Vienna. 

More info on Vienna here https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/14/city-with-a-female-face-how-modern-vienna-was-shaped-by-women

This episode is an interview with Professor Matthew Burke, transport planning specialist and is based at Griffith University in Cities Research Institute. 

Prof Burke is a transport planning guru  who is an expert at all things transport in the growing region of south east Queensland. 

I ask Matt all of the hard questions, such as:

• should Light Rail be extended to the airport through Palm Beach?

Prof Burke is always honest and makes things easy to understand. I could have chatted with him for at least another 30 mins. 

Hope you enjoy this interview! 

In episode 11 of the podcast, I chat with Laura Gannon. Laura and I discuss climate change, and the role planning must play in preventing, adapting and mitigating to climate change.

Laura is Associate Director of Meridian Urban and is a natural hazards planning specialist.

I ask Laura about the upcoming COP26 climate change conference in the UK and what the focus will be. We discuss the latest IPCC report which concluded that global action is needed to avoid significant impacts from climate change. And Laura shares the benefits of cultural burning and how traditional custodians have been successful managing the lands for thousands of years.

Laura also shares a range of reports and research pieces, including the following:

https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/

https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au

https://www.planning.org.au/policy/2021-climate-series