TEDxSydney - Rob Adams - Melbourne City Planner Reckons that Bigger Cities are Better Cities

As Director of Design & Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne with nearly 40 years experience as a practising architect and urban designer, Rob has produced a large number of strategic urban design solutions and projects in addition to design-research based urban projects and strategies, and has attracted over 100 state and national awards for excellence. A champion of both the arts and environmental sustainability he has worked to ensure that good urban design is established as a platform for city development into the 21st Century.

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TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre and the rest via big screen simulcast in The Forum. Thousands more watched the lives webstream. It was a grand day.

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[mornnb]

@jdtbruck Currently Sydney is largely developing besides train stations, there's some very high density development in Chatswood and Rhodes for example.

Sydney has much more narrow streets than Melbourne, but this is not fatal, narrow streets are not uncommon in large cities, London for example. Sydney's tram network used to be larger than Melbourne's, with 300km of track length. Many of the tracks still exist under neath our modern roads, with traffic jams of cars passing over them.

[BLEEPNOW]

Make sure you go to Melbourne and visit Rob's CH2 building. CH2 shows us the way ahead for sustainable design. Lets stop talking and start building our transport hubs as green precincts in the CH2 style..........now !

[AdiRudi]

@jdtbruck I think you have to do both with Sydney. Follow the principles Rob's outlined, but also increase transport services.

[jdtbruck]

favourite talk of the day! I wonder what we could do with Sydney? Unfortunately Sydney doesn't have that nice grid-like structure that he refers to. Our major highways are already completely clogged, so the issue of increasing population might be less of a location problem but a transport problem? More buses, more train infrastructure...