2008 - Griffith University

Site Degrees

URP research wins Planning Institute of Australia awards

Research conducted by the URP's A/Prof Darryl Low Choy has been recognised by the Planning Institute of Australia. At the 2008 awards function A/Prof Low Choy's investigation into peri-urban development won the PIA Award for Excellence in Planning Scholarship, Research and Teaching. The award committee found the research "develops an innovative typology of spatial settings, links them to landscape management challenges and identifies possible institutional arrangements. It is supported by a sound methodology and extensive understanding of previous research and literature."

Additionally, A/Prof Low Choy's work on natural resources management futures received a merit citation; as did his third year student group for their work on climate change in South East Queensland.

3rd Creating child friendly cities symposium

12-13 June 2008, presented as part of the Out of the Box Festival, QPAC, Brisbane

QPAC, Museum of Brisbane and Griffith University present a series of seminars about creative approaches to parenting, policy and cultural and community development in child friendly cities. An opportunity for parents, teachers, carers and other decision makers whose responsibilities include a duty of care for children to explore key issues and engage in conversions about developing creative, child friendly cities.

Out of the Box festival website

Symposium dialogues

Dialogue 1 - Creative resilience (PDF 15k)
Presented in association with Arts Queensland
Dialogue 2 - Creating child friendly cultural spaces (PDF 14k)
Presented in association with Museum and Gallery Services Queensland
Dialogue 3 - Children's mobility (PDF 14k)
Presented in association with Urban Research Program, Griffith University
Dialogue 4 - Children's relationship to the built environment (PDF 13k)

Bhutan in pursuit of increasing gross national happiness

Prof Lex Brown has received AusAID funding as part of the PSLP to build the capacity of the Bhutanese government in environmental management and sustainability.

AusAID - Bhutan

Enrique Peñalosa public seminars

7-8 February 2008, Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, South Bank

Enrique Peñalosa is the charismatic former Lord Mayor of Bogota, Columbia. He is recognised worldwide for his efforts transforming this city of seven million into a benchmark for sustainability, active transport, recreation and health.

The two seminars showcase his bold and controversial vision that turned a city for traffic into a city for people. As a result, Bogota now has a world-leading public transport system, 300 km of bicycle and walking trails, and a green network of 1200 parks and quality public spaces.

7 February 2008 - The astonishing rebirth of Bogota, Colombia - from the mayor who did it (PDF 122k)
8 February 2008 - The making of an 'active living' city: The remarkable story of Bogota, Colombia (PDF 42k)

Urban Research Program seminar series

23 October 2008 - Dr Gernot Stöglehner – Ecological footprints - Benefits and limitations as a decision making tool (Gold Coast campus) (PDF 60k)
15 October 2008 - Dr Gernot Stöglehner – Ecological footprints - Benefits and limitations as a decision making tool (Nathan campus) (PDF 60k)
3 October 2008 - Prof John Rennie Short – Going for gold: Globalisation, the summer games and urban makeovers (Gold Coast campus) (PDF 60k)
1 October 2008 - Prof John Rennie Short – Going for gold: Globalisation, the summer games and urban makeovers (South Bank campus) (PDF 60k)
3 September 2008 - Dr Gernot Stöglehner – Local sustainable development - Examples from Austria (PDF 60k)
20 August 2008 - Dr David Benassi – Poverty and inequality in Italy - A comparative perspective (PDF 60k)
19 August 2008 - Prof Patrick Troy AO and Prof Peter Spearitt – Troubled waters - Confronting the water crisis in Australia's cities (PDF 60k)
30 July 2008 - Prof Tony Hall – Impressions of Freiburg (PDF 60k)
29 July 2008 - Prof Rob O'Donoghue – Science education research and indigenous knowledge (PDF 60k)
23 July 2008 - Doreen Jakob – From agglomeration to commodification - Creative industries in Berlin and New York City (PDF 60k)
26 June 2008 - A/Prof Tony Perucci – Radical rupture, performance activism and neoliberal space (PDF 60k)
11 June 2008 - Dr Jago Dodson – The wrong place at the wrong time: Why current urban consolidation (and TOD) policies can't solve our looming urban challenges and what we should do about it (PDF 60k)
16 April 2008 - A/Prof Pichai Pamanikabud – Development of a highway noise prediction modelusing an Leq20s measure of basic vehicular noise (PDF 60k)
4 April 2008 - Prof Tony Hall – Where have all the gardens gone? (PDF 60k)
2 April 2008 - A/Prof Darryl Low Choy – Planning on the edge: Planning and management responses to peri-urbanisation (PDF 60k)
13 March 2008 - Dr Alan Walks – From gated communities to civic succession? Politics and place effects in Canadian gated communities (PDF 60k)
27 February 2008 - Sean Sloan – Forest regeneration and socio-economic development in Panama (PDF 60k)
30 January 2008 - Dr Peter Hoppe – Participatory social impact management (PDF 60k)