Julian Bolleter: Natural Density

Medium density – liveable neighbourhoods – protection for urban bushland and species within. How can we have it all?

Introducing our Guest Speaker

Julian Bolleter is the Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia, the Program Director of AUDRC’s Master of Urban Design course, and an author and public figure.

Julian completed his PhD concerning landscape architecture in Dubai and has published five books, ‘Made in Australia: The future of Australian cities’ (with Richard Weller), ‘Take me to the River: A history of Perth’s foreshore,’ ‘Scavenging the Suburbs,’ ‘The Ghost Cities of Australia,’ and ‘Desert paradises: Surveying the landscapes of Dubai’s urban model.’

Julian’s current research focuses on the big issues facing Australian cities.

One of these is an ambitious climate adaptation project, ‘Future climate, future home: adaptive urban design strategies for WA’ with AUDRC partner organisations Development WA, the Department of Communities, the Western Australian Planning Commission, and multiple Local Governments.

You can find out more about Julian’s work in The Conversation and on the Constructive Voices platform

The Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC)

AUDRC has an overarching vision to be a centre of excellence for the design and planning of cities including urban planning and design issues affecting the shape, sustainability and liveability of our cities. This requires systems thinking, big-data analysis, ecological services, spatial analysis, design theory and their integrated application.

You can find AUDRC’s Current Research Projects here.  They include:

• Natural density – what type of natural experience should we provide in areas that are becoming increasingly built up? The survey was promoted widely amongst the conservation network. You may have completed  it earlier this year.
• Future climate, future home: adaptive urban design strategies for WA – How climate ready are WA’s cities and towns?
• Accounting for carbon in the planning of residential neighbourhoods – How do we build low-carbon neighbourhoods.

We welcome Julian to the Urban Bushland Council to speak about how we can reconcile the protection of our urban bushlands and wetlands with increasing urban densification in Perth’s middle ring suburbs.

JOIN US

Join us on Wednesday 11 September at City West Lotteries House at 2 Delhi Street, West Perth. We will open the doors to the Conference Room at 6:00 pm and serve light refreshments.

Please let us know that you are coming along. You can either RSVP at the bottom of this page (keep scrolling) or else email ubc@bushlandperth.org.au. If you can’t make it to West Perth, you can join us online via Zoom. Please email ubc@bushlandperth.org.au to request the Zoom link.