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 Presenters

 

Councillor Krista Adams

Brisbane City Council

Conference Opening

 

Dr Delwar Akbar

CQUniversity

Paper: Growth and liveability in the Australian regional towns: A Case Study of Mackay City, Queensland

 

Dr Delwar Akbar

CQUniversity

Paper: Green transport in urban management: A case study of Eleanor Schonell Bridge, Brisbane.

 

 Monika Alcock

Paper: How does your Community Garden Grow:  A Demonstration Community Garden for Cooma, NSW

 

Mr Phil Allsopp

Transpolis Global, LLC

Paper: Urban Planning and Public Health – a comparison between USA, Swedish, and Spanish practices and related health care outcomes

 

Michael Asnica

Logan City Council

Paper: Logan Healthy City Plan development, implementation and evaluation

 

Mr Zainul Baharuddin

University of South Australia

Paper: Urban Green Spaces: Responsibility and Responsiveness by citizens and stakeholders

 in Kuala Lumpur

 

 Bryan Barker

Gold Coast City Council

Paper: Gold Coast City Cimmunity Planning 0 to be or not to be….

 

 Carol Battle

Arup Sustainability

Paper: Victorian Department of Health: Scoping of Climate Change Impacts on Population Health and Vulnerability

 

Mr Adam Beck

Green Building Council of Australia

Paper: Green Star Communities: Shaping Sustainable Cities of the Future

 

Dr Janis Birkeland

Queensland University of Technology

Paper: Retrofitting cities to improve public health and safety

 

Mr Phillip Birtles

Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority

Paper: Opportunities and frustrations of natural resources in a city: Lessons learnt from a waterway restoration initiative in Sydney

 

Director General John Bradley

Department of Environment and Resource Management

Paper: Creating Green, Strong, Healthy Cities

 

Mr Paul Brookfield

Gold Coast City Council

Paper: How does liveability contribute to human adaptation?  (emerging thoughts about how best to invest for healthier cities)

 

Mr Paul Brookfield

Gold Coast City Council

Paper: The role of community values in achieving Liveability: A review of Eagleby urban planning processes 1998-2009

 

Dr Paul Campbell

Cogentia P/L

Paper: eWaste: the Underbelly of a Digital Economy.

 

Mrs Sidonie Carpenter

Green Roofs Australia

Paper: Integrating Rainwater collection systems with Green Roofs

 

 Louisa Carter

GHD

Paper: Design/diagnostics

 

 Jeongeun Chae

Inha University

Paper: The Classification of Low Carbon Zone

 

Ms Kirsty Chessher

Urban Development Institute of Australia (Queensland)

Paper: EnviroDevelopment – The Successes and Challenges of Getting Sustainable Runs on the Board

 

Ms Judy Christie

Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority

Paper: Community Engagement in natural resource management  in Sydney

 

Dr Sean Connelly

University of Hawaii

Paper: Density x Dispersal: Typological Transformations for a Future Ahupua'a

 

Ms Karan Coombe-Smith

Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resources Management Board

Paper: Reporting for Remote Arid Planning Duty......Mission:  To Engage a Fatigued Audience in Planning......Strategy: Keep it Simple but not Stupid.

 

Mr Jonathan Dalton

Laros Technologies

Paper: Renewable Energy and the Built Environment

 

Professor Mike Daube

Curtin University

Paper: Healthy Cities – Where have we come from and where are we going?

 

Dr Peter Davey

Griffith University

Paper: Making the Cassowary Coast a more liveable tropical community

 

Mr Adam Davies

HASSELL

Paper: Smart communities: engaging, collaborative and vibrant places for the invention, innovation and creation of good ideas

 

Mr Jason Deller

Sunshine Coast Regional Council

Paper: Comparisons of emergent road safety strategies in Queensland

 

Kerry Doss

Brisbane City Council

Paper: Planning for Brisbane, Australia’s New World City

 

Dr Geoff Edwards

Private Capacity

Paper: FEASIBLE PATHS

Connecting Visions to Results

 

Mr David Engwicht

Creative Communities International

Paper: No-excuses place making: beyond master planning and community consultation

 

Ms Catherine Farrell

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Paper: Coastal inundation at Narrabeen Lagoon: optimising adaptation investment

 

Dr Steven Fleming

The University of Newcastle

Paper: The subcultures behind the cultural ascension of cycling and commuting by bike

 

Ms Kate Fraser

Kidsafe NSW

Paper: Rubber Coated Playgrounds? Strategies for a fall zone free playspace

 

Miss Kirsten Fry

THG

Paper: Wasted Space in Our Cities – Lessons from West End, Brisbane

 

 Fiona Glace

Brisbane City Council

Paper: Brisbane City Council - Towards Zero Waste Strategy

 

Dr John Grant

J A Grant &Assoc

Paper: Walkable and legible cities are healthy cities

 

Mr Matthew Harridge

O'Brien Traffic

Paper: How can a Council encourage walking?  The Glen Eira Experience

 

Mr Murray Henman

Transport Planner

Paper: All the Small Things: How the Accumulation of Minor Changes Frustrate the Pedestrian Realm

 

Mr Garth Henniker

c/- Griffith University, Logan campus

Paper: Building a learning community of practitioners and leaders – the Logan-Beaudesert health promotion scholarship program.

 

Mr Mike Hill

AURECON

Paper: Healthy Cities – Sustainable Health Infrastructure

 

 Alan Hoban

SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership

Paper: Carsharing and bikesharing: lessons learnt from Australian practice

 

 Alan Hoban

SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership

Paper: Retrofitting water sensitive urban design into existing urban areas

 

Richard Inwood

Solar Shop Australia

Paper: Practical Community Solar (PV), Programs, valuing the importance of Council/Shire leadership in encouraging communities to explore low cost quality renewable energy solutions

 

Mr David Kerr

Warringah Council

Paper: Warringah’s Housing Future

 

Mrs Ruth Kestermann

Arup Pty Ltd

Paper: The Sustainability of Affordable Housing in Australia –Lessons Learnt from Studies in Brazil

 

Miss Guler Koca

Anadolu University

Paper: City Planning Authority of Local Administrations

 And

Problems of Implementation in Turkey

 

Mrs Debra Langridge

Healthy Cities Illawarra

Paper: Bringing Child Friendly by Design to the Heart of Liveable Cities - the Illawarra Experience

 

Mrs Kay Lockhart

Kidsafe NSW Inc

Paper: Amazing Labyrinths - the value of including a labyrinth in a playspace

 

Dr David Marshall

The University of Queensland

Paper: The Ipswich Study: Understanding the relationships between people, places and health over time

 

Professor Malcolm McIntosh

Griffith University

Paper: The City Flow

 

The Honourable John Mickel MP

Queensland Parliament

 

Mr Trivess Moore

RMIT University

Paper: The lifetime costs and benefits of building zero emission new houses in Melbourne, Australia

 

 Hassan Naeini

University of Tehran

Paper: Sick Urban Syndrome (SUS): A major setback towards making cities livable

 

Mr Greg Picker

AECOM

Paper: Planning for the Future: considering the effect of climate change – and climate change related policy – on urban governance

 

Mr Robert Prestipino

Vital Places

Paper: Regional Growth: Liveability Curse or Cure?

 

National Vice President, Waste Management Association of Australia Mike Ritchie

Mike Ritchie & Associates

Paper: Waste management in a Healthy City –what does the future look like?

 

 Gilbert Rochecouste

Village Well

Paper: Creating Healthy and Resilient Cities - A Place Making Approach

 

Mrs Michele Rogers

Gold Coast Coast City Council

Paper: Building Community Resilience The Gold Coast Model

 

Ms Nina Rogers

Municipal Association of Victoria

Paper: Collaborative Approaches to Progressing Local Government Climate Change Adaptation: reflections from the UK, EU, Canada and the USA

 

Mr Bill Royal

Ku-ring-gai Council

Paper: Ku-ring-gai town centres – an example of design-led strategic planning

 

Mr Syed Mohammed Sarmad

Viridis

Paper: Transformation of Healthcare (‘Delivering Healthcare in a Climate Changed World’)

 

Ms Sunmi Shin

Inha University

Paper: A Study on Cultural Regeneration of Outdated Facilities in Urban Central Areas

-Focused on Jung-Gu in City of Incheon

 

Martin Shivas

Brisbane City Council

Paper: Nature bites back: dealing with intractable biting insect problems in the biophilic city

 

Ms Seyedeh Maryam Shobeiri Nejad

Tehran Azad University

Paper: Urban design policies to redesign urban spaces to healthy public places

 

Dr Andrew Simpson

Curtin University

Paper: Renewable Transport for Resilient Cities

 

Mr Stephen Smith

Adelaide and Mount lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board

Paper: A Regional NRM Board’s Role in Healthy Cities – A Water Management Context

 

 Caroline Stalker

Architectus

Paper: Remedies for Obese-City

 

Dr Evan Thomas

Integrated Sustainability Systems

Paper: Adapting Cities to Climate Change: using science in decision making under uncertainty

 

Associate Professor Susan Thompson

UNSW

Paper: New Ways-of-Working: The NSW Healthy Built Environments Program

 

 Warren van Wyk

Logan City Council

Paper: LG Act Community Plan and Healthy City Plan

 

Dr Arvind Varshney

HASSELL

Paper: How sustainable is my city? A blueprint of a new integrated assessment framework

 

 Andrew Wheeler

UNSW

Paper: Building the Evidence: A Critical Literature Review on the Incorporation of Health Provisions in Planning Policy

 

Dr Marcus White

RMIT

Paper: The Australian city 2050: Implementing the rhetoric using 3D spatial scanning and ‘defragmented’ digital design techniques.

 

Mr Wally Wight

Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO)

Paper: Peak Oil - A Positive Place-Making Tool

 

Mr Richard Wilson

Randwick City Council

Paper: Taking steps to create sustainable communities: the Ecological Footprint in practice

 

Mr David Wilson

MWH

Paper: Green Travel Plans

 

Miss Poppy Wise

Ipsos-Eureka Social Research Institute

Paper: SEEING THROUGH SOCIAL NORMS: AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO COMMUNITY SEGMENTATION & BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT

 


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