UrbanTalk Podcast

May 14 2024
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Join our host Belinda Barnett as we explore what makes our cities tick. The UrbanTalk Podcast aims to spark a thriving, inclusive and progressive dialogue around urban planning, design and development. We‘ll be inviting industry professionals and representatives from the public to discuss issues and areas of concern in an effort to promote a shared understanding of cities and the people living in them.

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2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 05 - PIA's Foresight Report

May 14 2024 35 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. This episode is a follow up from our previous talk about the Foresight Program at the American Planning Association. Today we will be talking about PIA’s own Foresight Report that will de

2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 04 - A Moment of Change

Apr 24 2024 28 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. As Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer, our guest Petra Hurtardo and her Foresight team keeps abreast of the changing trends and forces that can assist planners in remaining ahead of the

2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 03 - Doing it Differently

Apr 10 2024 30 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. We're joined by Ross Harding, who's looking to the future and finding new ways to transform our cities with his team at Finding Infinity. Finding Infinity were responsible for “A New Norm

2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 02 - The National Awards (Part 2)

Mar 27 2024 31 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. This second episode is split into two parts and focuses on the National Planning Awards. In this second part we speak with the 2023 National Young Planner of the Year, Bunfu Yu. Bunfu speak

2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 02 - The National Awards (Part 1)

Mar 06 2024 23 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. This second episode is split into two parts and focuses on the National Planning Awards. In this first part we speak with Megan Adair, a National Awards judge and the state awards convenor

2024 PIA Congress Podcast Episode 01

Jan 10 2024 24 mins  
UrbanTalk has teamed up with the Planning Institute of Australia to bring you a special series of podcasts centred around the 2024 PIA Congress being held in Melbourne on the 22nd - 24th of May. In this first episode we speak with the CEO of PIA, Matt Collins to hear about his vision for the Institute and what people can expect from the 2024 Planning Congress.

12 - Defining Density in a Housing Crisis

Dec 06 2023 45 mins  
In the latest episode of the UrbanTalk Podcast we welcome Karla Castellanos, Director of Urban Design at Audax Urban. Karla has lived and worked in cities all over the world and sits on a number of design excellence panels in NSW. With Karla, we talk about how density is perceived by the public and defined by government, which are often at odds. We also discuss the way planning pol

11 - Community Tension in Urban & Rural Development

Oct 18 2023 43 mins  
The landscape of urban development in Australia often involves a tension between local communities and new development. In this episode of the podcast we’re joined by Andrew Butt, Associate Dean in Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University. Andrew specialises in rural and peri-urban planning issues, observing that development related community tension in these areas mi

10 - Planning for the Future

Aug 02 2023 58 mins  
UrbanTalk had the great privilege of speaking with a legend of the urban planning and development world, Dr. Ed Blakely. Ed has decades of experience leading disaster relief, teaching, sitting on panels & committees. As a result, we dive into just about every part of urban planning and outline what a city should be like and how we plan for that future vision.

09 - Strategic Planning

Jul 06 2023 33 mins  
In this episode of the UrbanTalk Podcast, we’re joined by Mehra Jafari, Director of Policy & Urban Analytics at urban planning consultancy, Mecone. Mehra discusses the current landscape of strategic planning in Sydney, how different entities work together, what is and is not working and how policy could move forward to create better outcomes for the city.