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Month: July 2020

Award for Public Space and Cultural Heritage Advocacy At Fed Square

14 July 2020 admin Comment

In early 2018, I co-founded Citizens for Melbourne and we launched the ‘Our City, Our Square – for Fed Square, not Apple Square’ campaign. Our team was awarded The Bates Smart Award for Architecture in Media (Advocacy Award), Victorian Architecture Awards, Australian Institute of Architects, 2020.

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Urban History summer seminar series – ‘Questioning the Consensus? Urban Conservation in 1990s Sydney and Melbourne’

13 July 2020 admin Events
James Broadbent, ‘ICOMOS Australia’, 1982.

James Lesh will be speaking at a virtual seminar this Friday on his research.

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Why heritage protection is about how people use places, not just their architecture and history

9 July 2020 admin Publications

The roar of the crowd at the stadium. Jostling to see the New Year fireworks in the public square. Captivated by the band at the pub. Meeting mates outside the train station. These experiences conjure sites of importance for each of us.

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One of Melbourne’s worst planning mistakes at risk of being repeated

3 July 2020 admin Publications

A development proposal for the Jolimont railyards has the potential to be one of the biggest planning mistakes in Melbourne in a generation.

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