"The city is a collision of people and ideas." Are you interested in the benefits of investing in public transport? What do you think about design by democracy? How can we create heterogenous cities with infrastructure as the backbone? Interview with Sarah Bridges, Technical Director at Aurecon and Director of Precinct Planning within the AJM Joint…

Are you interested in urban evolution across time? Our summary today works with the article titled Cities through the ages: One thing or many? from 2019, by Michael E. Smith and José Lobo, published in the Frontiers in Digital Humanities journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Howard Bloom in episode 328 talking about urban …

Aurecon’s Simon McFadden joins Bree Miechel from Ashurst to explore the vital role of data centres. They discuss the growing demands they place on energy and water resources, and the critical engineering strategies being employed to enhance efficiency and sustainability. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Are you interested in technological innovation like writing? What do you think about cities as the guiding light for humanity? How can we utilise technology while still planning with community in mind? Trailer for episode 328 - interview with Howard Bloom, author and founder of the Howard Bloom Institute. We will talk about his vision for the futur…

Are you interested in the benefits of public transport? Summary of the book chapter titled Economic and social impacts of public transport investments: A scoping literature review from 2023, by Paulo Anciaes and Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, part of the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning book, published by Elsevier. This is a great preparation…

Are you interested in the benefits of investing in public transport? What do you think about design by democracy? How can we create heterogenous cities with infrastructure as the backbone? Trailer for episode 326 - interview with Sarah Bridges, Technical Director at Aurecon and Director of Precinct Planning within the AJM Joint Venture. We will tal…

"What are uses of land that the market won't provide but are still worthwhile?" Are you interested in the urban aspects not supported by market, like parks and beauty? What do you think about AI evolution? How can we retrofit the urban fabric for better futures? Interview with Fin Moorhouse, advanced AI researcher at Forethought. We will talk about…

Are you interested in long term planning for better neighbourhoods? Our summary today works with the article titled Planning ahead for better neighborhoods: Long run evidence from Tanzania from 2017, by Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, and Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, published by the Institute of Labor…

Are you interested in the urban aspects not supported by market, like parks and beauty? What do you think about AI evolution? How can we retrofit the urban fabric for better futures? Trailer for episode 324 - interview with Fin Moorhouse, advanced AI researcher at Forethought. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, AI and its progr…

"The whole interaction between the developing and developed cities and countries are really dynamic." Are you interested in the difference between cities in the developing and developed countries? What do you think about solutions for the right problems? How can we find the root causes? Interview with Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the Univ…

Are you interested in the effects of urban heat islands? Summary of the book chapter titled Synergies and exacerbations – effects of warmer weather and climate change from 2023, by Hassan Saeed Khan, Riccardo Paolini, and Matthaios Santamouris, as part of the Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands book, published by Elsevier. This is a great prepara…

Are you interested in the difference between cities in the developing and developed countries? What do you think about solutions for the right problems? How can we find the root causes? Trailer for episode 322 - interview with Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the University of New South Whales. We will talk about his vision for the future of …

"We live in an age where the expansion of possibility is actually greater than the latency of restrain." Are you interested in reinventing ourselves for better futures? What do you think about light cities? How can we create conscious urban evolution? Interview with Glenn Drew, CEO of SQUIZZ.COM, TOTECS and Connected Built. We will talk about his v…

Are you interested in artificial intelligence advancing cities? Summary of the article titled Intelligent urbanism with artificial intelligence in shaping tomorrow’s smart cities: current developments,, trends, and future directions from 2023, by Zhenjun Yan, Ling Jiang, Xiaoli Huang, Lifang Zhang, and Xinxin Zhou, published in the Journal of Cloud…

Are you interested in reinventing ourselves for better futures? What do you think about light cities? How can we create conscious urban evolution? Trailer for episode 320 - interview with Glenn Drew, CEO of SQUIZZ.COM, TOTECS and Connected Built. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, intelligent evolution, light cities, AI, retrof…

"One of the biggest strengths is the past of cities." Are you interested in the connection of economics and cities? What do you think about superstar cities and their agglomeration? How can we utilise cities’ pasts as their strengths? Interview with Mark Lutter, Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute. We will talk about his …

Are you interested charter cities? Summary of the article titled Building resilient cities: The role of charter cities in promoting resilient urban development from 2024, by Eva Klaus and the Charter Cities Institute, published on the Charter Cities Institute website. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Mark Lutter, the founder a…

Are you interested in the connection of economics and cities? What do you think about superstar cities and their agglomeration? How can we utilise cities’ pasts as their strengths? Trailer for episode 318 - interview with Mark Lutter, Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cit…

"Urban mining is a necessity for future cities!" Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling and regeneration? How can we make our material use more efficient? Interview with Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban mining, the city as the best…

Discover the trends impacting the biggest capital deployment we have ever seen for energy infrastructure. Aurecon’s Paul Gleeson and Ashurst’s Elena Lambros and Dan Brown discuss the current state of the energy transition, energy mix options including gas, hydrogen and nuclear and the economic choices that markets, investors and companies are makin…

Are you interested urban mining? Summary of the article titled Potential and relevance of urban mining in the context of sustainable cities from 2017, by Rachna Arora, Katharina Paterok, Abhijit Banerjee, and Manjeet Singh Saluja, published in the IIMB Management Review journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Don Weatherbee …

Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling and regeneration? How can we make our material use more efficient? Trailer for episode 316 - interview with Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban mining, the city as the best and worst of us, regen…

"I think people underestimate human ingenuity." Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research agency’s investigation on nuclear energy? How can we restructure our understanding on financing nuclear energy? Interview with Andrew Vass, a financial market expert. We will talk about his vision for the future…

Are you interested in nuclear power for clean energy? Summary of the articles titled What is nuclear energy, What about the waste, and Safety, security and safeguards from 2024, fact sheets produced by Nuclear for Australia. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Andrew Vass in episode 314 talking about the misconceptions of nuclear…

Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research agency’s investigation on nuclear energy? How can we restructure our understanding on financing nuclear energy? Trailer for episode 314 - interview with Andrew Vass, a financial market expert. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, nuclear en…

"I think we've become smaller, we've become less human as consumers, compared to active participants." Are you interested in regenerative placemaking? What do you think about urban participation and its consequences? How can we reimagine our place in cities to create more beautiful urban environments? Interview with Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and…

Are you interested in transitioning cities to be nature positive? Summary of the report titled Nature Positive: Guidelines for the transition in cities from 2024, by Javier García Olivares, Cristina Gómez Garcia-Reyes and Nicole Merlo as lead authors, published on the World Economic Forum website. This is a great preparation to our next interview w…

Are you interested in regenerative placemaking? What do you think about urban participation and its consequences? How can we reimagine our place in cities to create more beautiful urban environments? Trailer for episode 312 - interview with Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Managing Director of Village Well. We will talk about his vision for the fut…

"Cities can be the places that were how we do our metabolism as a spieces." Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about bioregions in our planning? How can we avoid defuturing? Interview with Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, futuring and…

In our first episode in this Engineering Reimagined series on ‘Engineering change’ in which we talk to engineers who are changing our world, Aurecon’s Tanya de Hoog sat down with John Hilton. They discussed John’s 50-year engineering career, how technology has changed over his half century in the industry and the seven personal traits they believe …

Are you interested in ecological design? Summary of the article titled Ecological urban planning and design: A systematic literature review from 2019, by Angela Heymans, Jessica Breadsell, Gregory M. Morrison, Joshua J. Byrne, and Christine Eon, published in the MDPI Sustainability journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Dr …

Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about bioregions in our planning? How can we avoid defuturing? Trailer for episode 310 - interview with Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, futuring and protopia, Spaceship Earth, reciprocity, experimen…

"Cities are part of the extended phenotype for the kind of knowledge that is produced by human civilisation." Are you interested in how quantum physics is influencing the future of cities? What do you think about the connection between knowledge and urban evolution? How can we create better urban environments for knowledge creation? Interview with …

Are you interested in what is possible based on physics? Summary of the book titled The Science of Can and Can’t – A physicist’s journey through the land of counterfactuals from 2021, by Chiara Marletto, published by Penguin. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Chiara Marletto in episode 308 talking about the connection of physic…

Are you interested in how quantum physics is influencing the future of cities? What do you think about the connection between knowledge and urban evolution? How can we create better urban environments for knowledge creation? Trailer for episode 308 - interview with Chiara Marletto, Scientific Researcher at University of Oxford. We will talk about h…

"The decarbonisation efforts really need to boil down to dollars." Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about choosing lower emission building materials? How can we make business sense for embodied carbon? Interview with Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, making bu…

Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? Summary of the white paper titled Measuring embodied carbon in the residential sector: Barriers and opportunities from 2024, by Tom Petty, published on the CarbonTrace website. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Tom Petty in episode 306 talking about embodied carbon and its accou…

Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about choosing lower emission building materials? How can we make business sense for embodied carbon? Trailer for episode 306 - interview with Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, making business sense of embodied carbon, the diff…

"The plan needs to accommodate constant change, because it's constantly adapting." Are you interested in different levels of AI agents assisting human decision-making? What do you think about open architecture technological systems? How can we democratise technology? Interview with Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ. We will tal…

Are you interested in urban progress with artificial intelligence? Summary of the white paper titled Agentic AI: The future is now from 2025, by VANTIQ. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Nick Bray in episode 304 talking about how open architecture systems and artificial intelligence are changing our lives. Since we are investig…

Are you interested in different levels of AI agents assisting human decision-making? What do you think about open architecture technological systems? How can we democratise technology? Trailer for episode 304 - interview with Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, AI levels, t…

"I think there is a bit of community / social imperative that we should be standing up for what we want, demanding more." Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsibility for mistakes made on the organisational level? Interview with Darren Mu…

Jessica Holz speaks with Hugh Possingham and Paul Leader about the erosion of biodiversity and its effect on wildlife. They also discuss how cities and the natural world can co-exist in harmony and how appropriate planning for major infrastructure projects can have a nature positive outcome. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Are you interested in urban governance accountability? Summary of the article titled A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance arrangements for adaptation to climate change from 2019, by Heleen Mees and Peter Driessen, published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. This is a great preparation to our next i…

Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsibility for mistakes made on the organisational level? Trailer for episode 302 - interview with Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities,…

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities? This episode is a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt talk abou…

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities?Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt …

Are you interested in urban food production approaches? Summary of the article titled Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclusive, transformational City Region Food Systems from 2018, by Alison Blay-Palmer, Guido Santini, Marielle Dubbeling, Henk Renting, Makiko Taguchi, and Thierry Giordano, published in the MDPI Sustainabi…

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities?Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt …

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities?Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt …