In PlanningxChange Episode 72, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Peta Charles the principal of Brisbane Town Planning (BTP). Peta has introduced many innovative features into her practice. She has produced and appeared in 100's of YouTube videos explaining different planning and design issues. It has become a significant information resource for the general public and clients. BTP applies a fresh and exciting approach as evident on their website (www.brisbanetp.com.au) which includes: "We m...
Nov 26, 2020•42 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 71, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Tamara Brezzi, the President of VPELA. Tamara is also a Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. Tamara started professional life as a Council town planner with the former City of Malvern. She then undertook a law degree and transferred to legal practice. Tamara talks of the importance of mentors in her professional development, essentially giving her confidence to take bold steps. Tamara discusses the role of the Victorian Planning ...
Nov 12, 2020•59 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 70, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Nick MacHale, the CEO of BRITE. Nick is an experienced executive having spent time in both commercial and not for profit sectors. His passion lies in bringing together people from all walks of life, to achieve a common purpose. Hailing from Ireland, Nick states he has been lucky enough to call Melbourne home for the last 13 years. BRITE provides sustainable services that create opportunity and support for people living with a ...
Oct 21, 2020•47 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 69, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview two local government planners, Meghan Ablett and Emily Cooke. Meg and Em work for the Cardinia Shire Council which is one of the major residential growth areas within the Melbourne metropolitan area. Meg and Em work in 'growth areas' planning that is at the urban edge overseeing the formation of new suburbs and providing the support for 'instant communities'. One of the toughest jobs in planning. The duo talk about their day t...
Oct 08, 2020•45 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 68, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Clark Davies; an urban planner/project manager based in the Middle East. Originally from Melbourne Victoria (a graduate of the Class of 83' at RMIT), Clark worked locally, then moved interstate and eventually overseas. Clark is a senior executive with a breadth of property development, construction and business management experience. He has delivered profit on large and complex projects through being able to successfully manag...
Sep 04, 2020•55 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 67, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Nick Vlahandreas of Mountain Planning. Nick is based in Bright, a mountain town in North East Victoria. He has 16 years experience combining local government and private practice. Nick talks candidly about mistakes he made when first in local government and the lessons he put into practice and by so doing making him a more complete and responsive planner. As well, he joined the local footy club and this opened his eyes to the ...
Aug 09, 2020•46 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 66, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Paul Shipp one of Australia's rising urban planning economist stars. It's said economics is essentially half psychology and half elementary school arithmetic with a flavouring of statistics. Paul in the interview gives a sense of the potential of urban economics to harness data to better understand and improve contemporary cities and regions. This at times challenges conventional wisdom and long established planning policy. Pa...
Jul 17, 2020•52 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 65, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Scott Beyer of the Market Urbanism report. This is the first international interview conducted by PlanningxChange! Scott Beyer is an urban affairs analyst based in New York City. He is founder and owner of Market Urbanism Report, a media organization that promotes free-market urban policy. MUR publishes a weekly article, a monthly podcast, and has active social media accounts with a combined following of over 50,000. Scott is ...
Jun 23, 2020•53 min
In PlanningxChange Episode 64, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Tim Biles from Ratio Consultants. Tim has had a long and distinguished career as a lecturer, consultant, advisor and 'creator' of several planning consultancies. We thought Tim would be an excellent commentator on the impacts of Covid 19 and Government retrictions on city life. So many predictions made during the pandemic have turned out in error sometimes of a massive magnitude causing huge dislocation to city life and citzen...
Jun 11, 2020•55 min
In PX63, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Ben Rossiter Secretary and Executive Officer of Victoria Walks. The organisation is a walking health promotion charity managed by an independent voluntary board. The organisation's mission is simple: 'More people walking more every day'. Victoria Walks undertakes research, which informs an ongoing campaign of advocacy and policy work. Ben talks of the benefits of walking and impediments to walking within our city form. But isn't more walking just l...
May 11, 2020•48 min
In this episode, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell of PlanningxChange interview Jacob Martin (Yarra CC), Calum Douglas and Nicole Neame both working at Baw Baw Shire. The three planners are relatively new to planning and have worked in local government for approximately two years. Nicole had worked in community engagement previously. We ask them about the transition from university into the 'real world', what has surprised them and to reflect on their experiences. They comment on the usefulness of wh...
May 04, 2020•59 min
In this episode Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell interview Mark Marsden. Mark has had a long and successful career across many sectors of the planning world a particularly unique part is his long association (now publisher)of the Victorian Planning Reports (VPRS). The VPR's and its predecessing versions (AATR's and PABR's) highlighted and summarised decisions of Victorian Planning Tribunal's (and now expanded to Planning Panels Victoria). In this way the VPR's spread best thinking on planning and de...
Mar 30, 2020•53 min
Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell engage in a free flowing discussion with Peter Seamer and Cameron Alderson. Peter Seamer is in a unique position to write about the future of our cities and has produced one of Australia's most critical analysis of city form in ‘Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities’. He was the CEO of the Victorian Planning Authority for ten years, the CEO of Federation Square during its building phase and first few years, and has been the CEO of several cities, including ...
Mar 12, 2020•57 min
Rob Adams, Director City Design and Projects, City of Melbourne Professor Rob Adams AM is the Director City Design and Projects at the City of Melbourne and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. With over 46 years' experience as an architect and urban designer and 35 years at City of Melbourne, Rob has made a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of central Melbourne. He and his team have been the recipients of over 150 local, national and ...
Feb 02, 2020•58 min
This episode of This Must Be The Place is part of the Digital Death Trip segment, where we investigate geographically themed ‘tragedies’ selected at random by the custom-coded ‘Digital Death Trip’ bot. The code uses the API to the National Library of Australia’s Trove archive to randomly select a Victorian town, then a random so-called Tragedy from it. It compiles a case file, then Liz follows up with some research about the incident, its place and time. Because Liz collected too much info, this...
Jan 10, 2020•39 min
Because Liz collected too much info, this digital death trip podcast (episode of This Must Be The Place) is in 3 parts. This is the 2nd episode of 3. Listen to episode 1 first! This episode of This Must Be The Place is part of the Digital Death Trip segment, where we investigate geographically themed ‘tragedies’ selected at random by the custom-coded ‘Digital Death Trip’ bot. The code uses the API to the National Library of Australia’s Trove archive to randomly select a Victorian town, then a ra...
Jan 10, 2020•41 min
This episode of This Must Be The Place is part of the Digital Death Trip segment, where we investigate geographically themed ‘tragedies’ selected at random by the custom-coded ‘Digital Death Trip’ bot. The code uses the API to the National Library of Australia’s Trove archive to randomly select a Victorian town, then a random so-called Tragedy from it. It compiles a case file, then Liz follows up with some research about the incident, its place and time. In this instalment, Digital Death Trip ha...
Jan 10, 2020•47 min
Recent graduates, Heather Sherlock and Diego Espinosa of the 'Planners under the Influence' podcast cross interview Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell of the PlanningxChange podcast. Youth and hope meet 'manufacture hardened' professionals. A lively discussion with many different perspectives on what makes for good cities, the state of university training, the role of developers, influencers and shared podcasting experiences. Sweet bird of youth meets somewhat wiser owls. For more details: www.plannin...
Dec 29, 2019•51 min
In PX57, the interview subject is Val Gnanakone, a Director at Old Mile Grid traffic engineers. Val talks about the changing role and focus of the traffic engineering profession in city development. Traditionally viewed as car and truck focused, Val talks of the widening scope of activities. These including making better city spaces by improving mobility options. In the interview we pose the question, should traffic engineers have a different job decription? The interview discusses a wide range ...
Nov 22, 2019•37 min
The "Living in the Music City: If you've got a spare half a million" event was held at the Toff in Town in Melbourne as part of the 2019 Festival of Urbanism. It was co-sponsored by Monash Urban Planning and Design, along with the Henry Halloran Trust, and the University of Sydney, and by the City of Melbourne as part of their Music Plan 2018-2021. The Festival aims to raise the debate about urban health, and other key topics. “Living in the Music City” combined a panel discussion of policy and ...
Nov 10, 2019•1 hr 6 min
“Living in the Music City: If You’ve got a Spare Half A Million” was held at Melbourne’s Toff in Town on September 2nd as part of the 2019 Festival of Urbanism. The idea of the event is to look at how live music and the night-time economy are shaped by the cost and availability of housing. The first half of the title, the Music City, derives from a three-year research project “Interrogating the music city: cultural economy & popular music in Melbourne”. The second half of the title – “If you...
Nov 10, 2019•1 hr 12 min
In this episode of This Must Be the Place Liz and Laura are joined by Monash Urban Planning and Design students Lachlan Burke, Sylvia Tong and Will McIntyre to share perspectives on whether and how urban planning can work across borders. They first talk about MAPS (Monash Association of Planning Students); how they gravitated to studying urban planning (from biology, environmental engineering, development studies and philosophy); and the upcoming MAPS 2019 Festival of Urbanism Commuter Race incl...
Nov 10, 2019•46 min
This episode of This Must Be The Place is a bit different – normally I talk to people, but in this episode I (meaning Liz Taylor, Monash University) actually just read out an essay I wrote recently about my experience of living in a building with combustible cladding. Also about reading Kafka (and David Graeber) and…well that’s the basic premise. I’ve called it Trial by Cladding. Please note – facts in this essay are as of around July 2019. A more recent (October) updated version of this essay a...
Nov 10, 2019•42 min
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Tim Eaton, Executive Director of Regulatory Standards, Assessments & Permissioning at the State of Victoria's Environmental Protection Authority is interviewed about current issues. These are many. In recent times, environmental issues have been constantly in the headlines, with a recycling crisis, chemical warehouse fires, distrust of government agencies and the general concern at the impacts of a rapidly expanding population. Tim speaks of the need of th...
Oct 15, 2019•42 min
In this episode, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell of PlanningxChange interview Sophie Jordan, a Melbourne based town planning consultant running her own small practice. Sophie has considerable experience working across the public and private fields. She brings a new perspective (from the small end of town) on the challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary city development. Questions include, has planning policy kept up with the great societal changes that have happened in the last 30 ...
Oct 04, 2019•51 min
In this episode Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell of PlanningxChange interview one of Melbourne's most inspirational urban designers, Orlando Harrison. A professional with a good knowledge of the past and an over the horizon view of future opportunities. Inspired by classical thinkers such as Aristotle and on the other extreme the science fiction writer Phillip K Dick, Orlando blends a nod to tradition with a view that 'the future is our friend'.
Oct 04, 2019•52 min
McIntyre Australia was founded in 2016 by husband and wife team Ned Scholfield & Racquel Boedo. The pair first started to think about creating their own fashion wool label after spending a year working together on Ned's family farm 'Glenoe' in western Victoria. A compelling story of farming, passion and fashion. There are unusual links between fashion and city development; this PlanningxChange podcast interview provides clues on how dynamic forces can create better products, environments and...
Oct 04, 2019•48 min
"In every instance ... the user is paying. They're either paying by getting up early, by walking much further, or they're paying in frustration in looking for the perfect park and there's a time penalty you can translate directly into dollars”. Who pays for transport, and who benefits from it? In this episode of This Must Be The Place, Liz is joined over lunch by transport researchers Laura Aston, Nicholas Fournier and Knowles Tivendale to discuss equity in transport pricing. Lunch isn’t free, b...
Jul 22, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Design with confidence (Koos de Keijzer). Melbourne based architect, Koos de Keijzer talks with PX of the changing professional environment for architects and the challenges to create better citzen and residential outcomes within urban areas. He talks as a practising architect with offices in Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam. The interview discusses the golden rules of architecture, the benefits of experimentation and lessons learnt from past large scale urban design projects. An international...
Jul 22, 2019•41 min
Clarksdale Blues & Resurrection (John Henshall). Melbourne economist John Henshall has a long term romance with the Mississippi delta town of Clarksdale. The birthplace and inspiration for many blues legends (and playwright Tennessee Williams), Clarksdale fell on very hard times, its great blues heritage all but forgotten. The resurrection of the town as a focal point of blues heritage, the associated pride in place and economic revitalistauon is detailed in Hensall’s recently released book ...
Jul 22, 2019•32 min
