International Urban Design Conference

Key Topics

• Regulating urban design
  • Planning for infrastructure delivery as population increases
  • Best practice urban design; standards, regulation, licencing and policy
  • Purpose & Habitation
• Potential of mixed use places, spaces and precincts/districts
  • Locals, tourists and businesses - forming processes for best outcomes in regard to urbanisation
  • Vertical versus horizontal? Or integrated?
  • Urban Design encouraging social interaction
  • Knowledge precincts - linkage between knowledge hub and consumer hubs
  • Residential, commercial and community services
  • Ecology - natural and human environment
• Transport
  • Public cars, driverless cars, impacting design for the future, less carparks
  • Metro, light rail transforming people centred areas
  • Connectivity, 20 minute neighbourhood, all amenities within a 20 minute area of residential living
• Safe city design
  • Public boundaries
  • Footpath, bollards
  • City and terrorism, ownership
  • Designing out crime
  • Approaches to shelterlessness
• Digital
  • Smart Citizen
  • Digital fabrication
• Design quality
  • Reframing a city, cities that are changing
  • Future proofing
  • Diversity and universal design
  • Outcomes for liveability, sustainability and resilience
  • Density, mix and provision of open space
  • Densification through height
  • Urban Renewal
  • Digital Built Environment