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Melissa Neighbour talks about the YIMBY or “yes in my back yard” movement, what the group is trying to achieve and why it’s important.

Our guest, Anna Gurnhill, discusses the crucial impact of neighbourhood design on public health, highlighting evidence-based strategies, key design features, and practical case studies that can improve liveability, physical activity, and wellbeing for all Australians.

In this episode we discuss how a more wholistic approach to planning that includes adequate green infrastructure will improve the liveability, sustainability, health and safety of our communities.

Associate Professor of Urbanism at the University of Sydney discusses unsolicited urbanism using Barangaroo as a case study and examine the broader implications and risks that come from such an opaque process.

Paulo Macchia, the Director Design Governance at the Government Architect NSW joins the UrbanTalk Podcast to discuss design competitions and continues our discussion on design excellence from episode 13.

We’re joined by Guy Gibson, a Director at Suburban Futures and co-editor of the book “The Next Australian City: The Suburban Evolution”. We take a quick overview of the past, present and future of Australian suburbia.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the Planning Congress 2025.

Former Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, Dr Rob Stokes. A passionate urbanist with a unique perspective, Rob shares some of his philosophy on planning, initiatives that could improve Australia’s planning system and the challenges facing State Governments.

Associate Professor of Urbanism at the University of Sydney discusses unsolicited urbanism using Barangaroo as a case study and examine the broader implications and risks that come from such an opaque process.

Architect and urban designer, Jon Johannsen joined us on the UrbanTalk Podcast to discuss the design excellence process and design review panels.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress.

Director of Urban Design at Audax Urban, Karla Castellanos talks about how density is perceived by the public and defined by government. We also discuss the way planning policy is formulated and examine some of the initiatives put forward to address housing shortages.

RMIT University Associate Dean, Andrew Butt discusses development related community tension in urban and rural areas, the causes of development opposition, as well as how our planning system creates this opposition.

Urban planning luminary, Dr. Ed Blakely shares decades of experience leading disaster relief, teaching, sitting on panels and committees. We dive into just about every part of urban planning.

Director of Policy and Urban Analytics at Mecone discusses the current landscape of strategic planning in Sydney and how policy could move forward to create better outcomes for the city.

Acting as a companion to the last episode, we speak with First Nations artist Danielle Mate. Here she touches on what Country is and the role public art plays in bringing people together.

Landscape Architect Dean Boone speaks with us about the role of the landscape architect and gives a brief introduction to Designing with Country.

Gary Henighen – Senior Associate at award-winning architecture and design studio, Architectus – joins us to discuss architecture and mixed-use development.

We’re joined by demographer Simon Kuestenmacher to discuss some of the findings from the 2021 Census and what they mean for Australia.

Belinda chats with Kylie Legge, founder of social research company Place Score to discuss how we measure and think about liveability in our cities.

Sonny Embleton, head of urban design at Gyde Consulting, talks about the impact COVID-19 will have on city and town planning in the future.

We're joined by Hyecorp's Co-Managing Director to discuss the steps of development and his philosophy to the process.

This helpful explainer video from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) explains the requirements for being able to fly a drone commercially.

The first episode of our podcast is an introduction to the UrbanTalk platform and the podcast series.