Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 13 February
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In 30 years, Melbourne’s CBD will have another 220,000 new residents. A ‘second CBD’ has been proposed for Melbourne’s west, along with a third runway for Tullamarine airport – and more green wedge land for housing.
Can a big Melbourne remain beautiful – let alone liveable or sustainable? Can we have it all, or do tough choices lie ahead?
With Jane Rawson, Alan Davies, David Nichols and Roz Hansen.
Ideas for Melbourne
We’re kicking off 2013 with a series of public forums that take a closer look at the city we call home – and the problems and challenges facing Melbourne right now.
Make your voice heard as we debate Melbourne’s future – and the kind of city we want to live in.
Featuring
Jane Rawson
Jane Rawson writes novels, essays and stories, mostly about climate change and animals. Her latest novel is From the Wreck. She lives in Tasmania's Huon Valley and works for a conservation organisation.
Alan Davies
Alan Davies is the blogger behind The Urbanist, and an urban and regional planner with Pollard Davies Consulting. His academic background is in planning, economics, sociology and architecture.
The Urbanist is Australia’s leading site for discussion about cities, including transport, planning, infrastructure, development and social issues. It attracted 315,000 visits in 2012 from Australia and overseas.
Alan did his doctorate on the geography of firm location in Melbourne (University of Melbourne) and his Masters on the equity effects of petrol prices in Sydney (University of Sydney).
He’s worked as a consulting social planner, transport systems analyst, ministerial adviser and in various capacities within government. The greater part of his professional life has been devoted to industry policy, regional development, water industry reform, and strategic urban planning.
Roz Hansen
View ProfileDavid Nichols
David Nichols is a writer and cultural commentator who is senior lecturer in urban planning at the University of Melbourne.
Dr David Nichols was born in Melbourne in 1965. His books include Community: Building Modern Australia (co-edited with Hannah Lewi), the bestselling The Bogan Delusion (2011) and the forthcoming Trendyville (co-authored with Renate Howe and Graeme Davison), a study of activism in Australia’s inner cities in the 1960s and 70s. Another (sole-authored) book, on the history of Australian popular music, is to be published in October 2013.
His specialty areas include urban, cultural and social history, with an emphasis on Australia but within a global context. He is an advocate for environmentally sensitive planning, but at the same time a supporter of suburbia and decentralisation.
Recently he has presented (with Elizabeth Taylor) the Triple R show The Urbanists, covering urban issues with a Melbourne planning focus.
He lives in Broadmeadows with his wife, artist Mia Schoen, and numerous pets.