Hustle & Bustle podcast

Ep.18 Dorina Pojani - Brisbane‘s car-free community

In this episode, I interview Dorina Pojani, who is Senior Lecturer in urban planning at The University of Queensland. 
Her research interests encompass built environment topics, including urban design, urban transport, and urban housing, in both the Global North and South. She has completed her graduate studies in the US and Belgium, besides her native Albania. Over the years, she has held guest teaching or research positions in Austria, Chile, and Italy, and has been a consultant for various UN agencies including the United Nations Development Program, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, and UN Habitat. Prior to joining academia, she worked in urban design and planning in California. Her latest book is Trophy cities: A feminist perspective on new capitals, published by Edward Elgar, London. Offering a fresh perspective, the book analyses the socio-cultural and physical production of seven planned capital cities, including Canberra.
We discuss one of her latest research pieces looking at Brisbane's car free community. 
We chat about:
Dorina's background and upbringing that led to her researching Brisbane’s car free community
What some of the main reasons people are shunning the car in Brisbane.
What are the societal benefits of being car-free?
How do we as planners and city shapers support a greater portion of the population in SEQ to make the switch to car-free?
It's a shorter 20 min chat, hope you enjoy!

Ep.17 Matthew Leman - future of planning schemes

This week I interview Matthew Leman. Matt is an urban and regional planner, having graduated from QUT in 2016, and has worked across private sector, State and local governments. He is also a digital native, meaning he was born after the internet.
Matt brings a unique perspective to planning and asks “how can we ensure ‘planning’ is bought up-to-speed with current technology and consumer expectations?”
In this is episode:
- Matt surprises me with a thank you
- speaks of his personal challenges buying a suitable home to live in
- explains his experiences of interacting with planning schemes 
- speaks to the current crisis of trust
- details the opportunity for the future of planning schemes
- suggest the new approach to planning which is an Exemplary based planning system
- challenges us to look outside of planning to what we as digital consumers find easy to use and engaging & then apply that same approach to planning
Thanks so much Matt for sharing your thoughts on the podcast this week! 
* Please note: the views expressed on this episode are his own, and do not necessarily represent that of his employer.

Ep.16 Update & highlights from last 3 weeks

This episode is an update & apology for skipping 2 weeks of podcast episodes!  
I made it 15 weeks in a row of new weekly episodes. But a range of professional events have occurred post-covid restrictions which has meant I needed to have a short break from podcasting.  
Good news is I’m now back for the rest of this season, with only a few more episodes left until it’s a wrap on season 1!  
In this episode, I share my highlights from 2 key professional events I attended in recent weeks:
1. the 2021 Planning institute of Australia qld conference held on Sunshine Coast in late October, including presentations from:
- Lucy Turnbull AO (former Lord Mayor Sydney, greater western Sydney commission, & wife of former PM Malcolm Turnbull)
- Kerry Doss (State planner, DSDILGP) 
- Sara Golingi & Jaime Traspaderne (Arup)
- Judge Fleur Kinghom & Dr Sharon Harwood
- Ben Johnston (futurist - metaverse, 2 realms, digital influencers etc)
2. PIA Qld awards for excellence  - list of the award winners for the categories.
I also ask for your input as I plan season 2 of the podcast in 2022. I’m open to any suggestions for topics/ guests.  And I announce the guest I’ll be interviewing this week!   
Its a shorter 20 min episode. Hope you enjoy it!  

Ep.15 Dr Stefan Hajkowicz - technology & shaping cities

This week on the podcast, I interview Dr Stefan Hajkowicz.
Dr Stef is Principal Scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. At CSIRO, he is Director of Data 61, leading a team of researchers helping governments, companies and communities explore plausible futures and make wise choices. Stefan is widely published in international literature, including his best seller Global Megatrends which details 7 significant shifts to influence our future.
Stefan is passionate about digital tech and it’s influence on the built environment. I asked him “How will technology reshape our cities and regions over the next decade?”. Stef unpacks this topic, observing what planners and city shapers need to know about technology changes.
We chat about:
artificial intelligence & how planners can get computers to do the mundane tasks
E commerce influence on city centres
Work from home now & trends into future
Tech hubs & what we need to do to support these emerging businesses
Creating a ‘digital twin’ of cities and regions
And so much more!
It’s the longest episode on the podcast to date at about 35 minutes. But we pack alot of good info into that time!

Ep.14 Amy Degenhart - Exemplary missing middle housing

This week I sat down with Amy Degenhart, Director of degenhartSHEDD urban design + architecture.
Amy is the driving force (architect & developer) behind exemplar missing middle housing, including ENVI micro urban village in Southport, Gold Coast CBD. ENVI is an award winning exemplary small lot house and land development, featuring 10 terrace home ranging from 1 bedroom to 3 bedrooms.
Amy shares her passion and expertise in addressing the housing supply and affordability challenge within South East Queensland, through pioneering this new typology of housing, which delivers an affordable home in an inner city location, and exemplary design outcomes.
We discuss;
the design thinking behind Envi
What needs to change in policy and implementation to repeat Envi
observations about benefits of co-designing houses and subdivision
similarities with Queenstown
I hope you enjoy this discussion!
More information on the ENVI project here:
The Micro Lot Development | Envi Micro Urban Village

Ep.13 Nicole Boulton - Planning cities for women

In this episode, I chat with Nicole Boulton.
Nicole is Principal Planner at PSA consulting and the new Chair of the Professional development committee at Planning Institute of Australia Queensland division. 
Nicole is also a mother of 2 young children, a wife, and volunteers on her son‘s P&C Committee. 
I chat with Nicole about her new role as PD chair, as well as ask her about work life balance and she shares her top tips to juggling it all. This includes a great reminder (during mental health awareness week) to check in with yourself about your mental health. 
The main topic of this conversation is Nicole‘s passion of planning for women. Nicole shares some of her research on the key issues affecting women in cities, and what we might do to address these, including an interesting case study from Vienna. 
More info on Vienna here https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/14/city-with-a-female-face-how-modern-vienna-was-shaped-by-women
 
 
 
 

Ep.12 Professor Matthew Burke - Transport on the Gold Coast

This episode is an interview with Professor Matthew Burke, transport planning specialist and is based at Griffith University in Cities Research Institute. 
Prof Burke is a transport planning guru  who is an expert at all things transport in the growing region of south east Queensland. 
I ask Matt all of the hard questions, such as:
should Light Rail be extended to the airport through Palm Beach?
is Light Rail an outdated mode?
how do we integrate transport planning and land use planning better?
are we maximising the Olympics legacy opportunities for transport in the region?
Prof Burke is always honest and makes things easy to understand. I could have chatted with him for at least another 30 mins. 
Hope you enjoy this interview! 

Ep.11 Laura Gannon - Role of planning in climate change

In episode 11 of the podcast, I chat with Laura Gannon. Laura and I discuss climate change, and the role planning must play in preventing, adapting and mitigating to climate change.
 
Laura is Associate Director of Meridian Urban and is a natural hazards planning specialist.
 
I ask Laura about the upcoming COP26 climate change conference in the UK and what the focus will be. We discuss the latest IPCC report which concluded that global action is needed to avoid significant impacts from climate change. And Laura shares the benefits of cultural burning and how traditional custodians have been successful managing the lands for thousands of years.
 
Laura also shares a range of reports and research pieces, including the following:
https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au
https://www.planning.org.au/policy/2021-climate-series

Ep.10 Top 3 tips from past guests & future trends

This is a solo episodes recapping on previous episodes, top 3 lessons learnt from previous guests, and discussing future trends which will affect cities and regions over next 5, 10, 20 years.

Ep.09 Natalie Rayment - YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard)

This week on the podcast I chat with Natalie Rayment, co-founder of YIMBY, a non for profit organisation saying Yes In My Backyard to good development and city growth.
I ask Natalie about YIMBY:
• Where did it all start?
• What does YIMBY stand for?
• How do we improve community participation in planning and development?
• What are some of the benefit of development in existing neighbourhoods?
We recorded this episode live from the Asia Pacific Cities Summit, so there is some conference noise in the background. 
If you're interested to hear more from Natalie or get involved in the YIMBY movement, here's the link  https://yimbyqld.com.au
Enjoy!