Forum for Irish Urban Studies Seminar 10th May 2007
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Forum for Irish Urban Studies Seminar, Thursday 10th May, 2007:
‘Planning Metropolitan Sydney: Back to the Future’The Forum for Irish Urban Studies in association with the Centre for
Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), Trinity College would like to
invite you to an upcoming public seminar entitled ‘Planning
Metropolitan Sydney: Back to the Future’. The seminar will be held in
the Museum Building, Trinity College on Thursday 10th
May from 5.30-7pm.In a change to our regular format there will be one speaker which will
be followed by our usual 20-30 minute discussion period.Our speaker for the evening is Professor Pauline McGuirk, Dept. of
Geography, University of Newcastle, Australia. Professor McGuirk is a
leading expert on urban political geography, urban regeneration, urban
planning and communicative planning practice. She is the current Head
of the Department of Geography at the University of Newcastle,
Australia. Prof. McGuirk completed her PhD (Trinity College) on urban
planning in Dublin in 1991. She then worked at the University of
Wollongong, New South Wales before moving to the University of
Newcastle where she is currently employed. She is author of numerous
international journal publications as well as being the Director of
the Centre of Urban and Regional Studies at Newcastle University. She
is a former President of the Geographical Society of New South Wales
and is currently Associate Editor of the Australian Geographer. She is
also a member of the International Editorial Board of Irish Geography.Registration for the seminar is by email at directors@fius.ie or via
the registration page on the FIUS website at http://www.fius.ie/register.php.
Full
seminar details are available on the FIUS website at http://www.fius.ie/events.php.If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to
contact us.Sinéad Kelly
Enda MurphyDirectors of FIUS
Email: directors@fius.ie
Tel: 01 708 3938 8961134
Website: http://www.fius.ieJust a reminder to say that this is on this evening.
@phil wrote:
Just a reminder to say that this is on this evening.
How did this go? Couldn’t make it tonight and I was disappointed as I think Pauline has the most comprehensive body of work published by any planning academic/researcher regarding Dublin in the past 10 years or so.
Tommy, it was very well delivered and interesting. Particularly in terms of its relevance to Dublin and its development in recent years. As well as providing a critical analysis of the situation in Sydney, Pauline also discussed some of the ways in which problems are being addressed. This was mainly focused on the publication of City of Cities: A Plan for Sydney’s Future in 2005, and how it has marked a return to metropolitan wide planning.
http://www.metrostrategy.nsw.gov.au/dev/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=28&languageId=1&contentId=-1
@phil wrote:
Tommy, it was very well delivered and interesting. Particularly in terms of its relevance to Dublin and its development in recent years. As well as providing a critical analysis of the situation in Sydney, Pauline also discussed some of the ways in which problems are being addressed. This was mainly focused on the publication of City of Cities: A Plan for Sydney’s Future in 2005, and how it has marked a return to metropolitan wide planning.
http://www.metrostrategy.nsw.gov.au/dev/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=28&languageId=1&contentId=-1
Thanks Phil. I will peruse the link later:) – After having a quick shufty and that’s a very impressive document-Puts the NSS to shame (I know that’s easy!). The modelling of what Sydney would look like if sprawl was allowed to cintinue unchecked is a great idea. Something similar for the GDA would have embellished the NSS no end. A good project for a dedicated students’ dissertation maybe?
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