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ACT PLANNING NOT CLIMATE RESILIENT
PURPOSE To seek that the Federal Government co-ordinate changes to current planning policies that create extensive urban heat islands...
Albert Oberdorf
Sep 27, 20238 min read
THE ‘MISSING MIDDLE’ — doing it right
by Richard Johnston (B.Arch. Dip.T&C.Planning, Dip.Environ.Stud.) This currently much-discussed topic needs some objective analysis and...
Richard Johnston
Sep 1, 202312 min read
PROPOSAL FOR ACT INDEPENDENT PLANNING COMMISSION
THE PROPOSAL For an ACT Independent Planning Commission, Local Planning Expert Panels & Rigorous Building and Construction Regime....
Albert Oberdorf, Richard Johnston
Feb 3, 20235 min read
Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra and his Tramway. The Ideal City of the Future? (Part One of Three)
Dr Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey Honorary Professor, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Professor emerita, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo...
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey
Sep 28, 202217 min read
Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra and his Tramway. The Ideal City of the Future? (Part Two of Three)
Dr Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey Honorary Professor, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Professor emerita, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo 5....
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey
Sep 27, 202218 min read
Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra and his Tramway. The Ideal City of the Future? (Part Three)
Dr Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey Honorary Professor, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Professor emerita, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo...
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey
Sep 26, 202219 min read
THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN CANBERRA – AN OVERVIEW
Prepared by: Albert Oberdorf & Bruin Christensen Canberra, ACT, September 2022 Introduction In this paper we seek simply to show, using...
Albert Oberdorf, Bruin Christensen
Sep 25, 202210 min read
SOME NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF PLANNING IN THE ACT: THE CANBERRA PARADOX
This article builds on a talk given by Prof. Nick Brown (School of History, ANU) at a CPAG forum 21 April 2022, as refined by Dr Chris...
Nicholas Brown
Jun 5, 20227 min read
PLANNING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TACKLING THE BIG ISSUES NOW
The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) is Australia’s national body “representing planning and the planning profession”. In 2021 the...
Richard Johnston
Jun 5, 20229 min read
THE ACT DRAFT PLANNING BILL – AN ABERRATION
Introduction The following analysis demonstrates why the draft ACT Planning Bill is so retrogressive that it needs to be withdrawn and...
Albert Oberdorf
Jun 5, 20225 min read
CITIES' RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
Review of World Economic Forum Insight report ‘BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming Cities’ Relationship with Nature [1] The destructive...
Geoff Pryor
Jun 5, 20225 min read
DRAFT PLANNING BILL—Limiting the Planning Authority's Power
The draft Bill released by the ACT Government in March 2022 provides for enormous power over decision making to be given to the Planning...
Tim Field
May 9, 20224 min read
OUTCOMES-FOCUSSED PLANNING—The Spurious Foundations of ACT Planning Reform
CPAG Forum, April 21st, 2022 The proposed reform of ACT planning instruments is, says Chief Planner Ponting, a shift from a system based...
Bruin Christensen
May 9, 20225 min read
THE ACT DRAFT PLANNING BILL – Comments by Richard Johnston
CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS • Confidence, certainty and clarity -
provide a ‘district strategy’ and draft territory plan for public...
Richard Johnston
May 9, 20228 min read
Why raise London Circuit?
Abstract The current proposal to raise London Circuit in order to construct the City to Woden Light Rail connection via West Basin, in...
Richard Johnston
Jan 25, 202210 min read
Accountability and confidence in government: a paper review
In December 2021 a community group of highly qualified people, coming together as The Accountability Round Table (ART), issued a paper...
Geoff Pryor
Jan 25, 20226 min read
The Significance of the Current ACT Government Planning Review
Canberra once again at the crossroads According to Mick Gentleman, Minister for so-called Urban Renewal, the ACT planning system is a...
Bruin Christensen
Nov 25, 202116 min read
Why does Canberra look like it does? (Part two)
The material for this article up until 1988 is mainly sourced from Paul Reid - Canberra following Griffin: a design history of...
Richard Johnston
Nov 19, 202111 min read
The Gungahlin Town Centre - A Failed Planning System Case Study
Introduction It’s been an interesting year for Gungahlin: · On 10 February 2021 the ACT Assembly passed a motion moved by Suzanne...
Peter Elford
Oct 25, 202111 min read
Why does Canberra look like it does?
A history of planning in Canberra This is Part 1 of 2. All of the material in Part 1 is sourced from Paul Reid - Canberra following...
Richard Johnston
Oct 22, 202111 min read
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