Renew Australia has been working on a pilot project Docklands SpacesĀ in Melbourne with partners including Places Victoria, The City of Melbourne, and MABĀ corporation. Docklands, unlike Newcastle or Adelaide, or some of the other places the Renew model has been obviously useful to date is not an old area that has fallen on hard times but [...]
Renewing the new? Early reflections from Docklands Spaces
April 27th, 2013 7 Comments
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Iterative cities … or why the activity is more important than the act…
December 5th, 2012 19 Comments
Of late much my work has been with cities, towns and communities independently and latterly through Renew Australia. A lot of it involves taking the lessons learnt through Renew Newcastle and attempting to apply them in other communities and contexts. It also involves a lot of training up, talking to, working with and simply observing [...]
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