AILA TALK

‘Sustainability: translating the rhetoric into action City wide initiatives’, an overview of the Sydney and Melbourne experience

A discussion and evaluation of the 2030 strategy for the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne and initiatives and lessons learnt. 

Speaker One

Rob Moore
Manager Parks and Urban Design
City of Melbourne
 
Rob Moore is qualified as an Architect and Urban Designer.  He graduated from Liverpool University, UK, with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1977.  As Manager of the Parks and Urban Design Branch of the City of Melbourne, Rob and his team are responsible for the design and management of the city’s public realm.

Melbourne’s 20-year strategic program of urban design initiatives and interventions has made a significant contribution to the transformation of the central business district to a thriving, world-class mixed-use city centre. The City of Melbourne’s Parks and Urban Design Branch has received numerous state, national and international awards that recognise this achievement.
 
Prior to joining the City of Melbourne in 1999, Rob had 22 years experience working in private practice in London, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Rob’s presentation will focus on

• how to move from a livable city to a sustainable city including the  following:
• densification of our linear road based (tram and bus) transport  corridors
• greening of the suburban wedges between the new dense corridors (including   landscape treatment, energy production and water collection, food  production)
• illustration of what all of the above might look like and how we might  get there

Speaker Two

Roderick Simpson
simpson + wilson 
architecture+urban design

As principal of the architectural and urban design practice simpson+wilson,  Roderick Simpson led the urban design and spatial planning of the recently released Sustainable Sydney 2030 Strategy and was involved in the development of the “City of Cities” Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney between 2003 and 2007.

He has been an active advocate of ecologically sustainable design principles, culminating in the formulation of “BASIX”, the NSW Building Sustainability Index that applies to all residential development in NSW.

Roderick’s projects have received recognition including the Premiers Award for Architecture, RAIA Presidents Award, and Merit Awards and PIA Award for Excellence in Urban Planning.

Rod will provide an outline of some of the key challenges faced in the development of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 Strategy, and pinpoint some of the potential projects to be addressed by Landscape Architects and other design professions in its ongoing implementation