Dan Hill of the blog City of Sound fame (and much more besides) has written a piece for the current Architecture Review Australia about ‘bottom up planning’ or ‘emergent urbanism’ as he prefers to call it. In the article and the accompanying blog post he uses Renew Newcastle as a strong example and says some [...]
City of Sound on Renew Newcastle as ‘Emergent Urbanism’
February 17th, 2010 View Comments
Tags: architecture · Architecture Review Australia · City of Sound · Dan Hill · Renew Newcastle · urban planning · urbanism
RN on RN
February 28th, 2009 View Comments
Myself and Kim Bridgland from the Renew Newcastle project were on By Design on Radio National this morning. In a situation that may soon confront many Australian city centers, Newcastle has over a hundred vacant buildings in its two main streets. “Renew Newcastle” is an initiative to rejuvenate the centre of town, not by throwing [...]
Tags: ABC Radio · alan saunders · architecture · by design · radio interview · radio national · Renew Newcastle · urban planning
The problem of scale
February 23rd, 2009 View Comments
I am writing this on the train from Sydney to Newcastle on my phone as my laptop is dead and in need of charging… Returning from Newcastle after a very successful launch weekend for the renew Newcastle project, I’ve started to reflect on some of the larger policy questions. In part this is inspired by [...]
Tags: Art · cultural policy · Newcastle · sydney · urban planning
Board room bars?
February 2nd, 2009 View Comments
My musing from friday about recessions and their cultural consequences has been picked up in a few places. It’s been republished both in today’s Crikey and over at Larvatus Prodeo. Further to that post, I’ve been thinking a little more about the implications of the global financial crisis on our cities and our cultural life… [...]
Tags: board room bars · CBD renewal · cities · cubicle galleries · DIY · financial centres · recession · trading room apartments · urban planning