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New Urban News

New Urban News provides substantive and concise information for professionals and lay people with a strong interest in the New Urbanism. New Urban News is published eight times a year, and each issue is full of articles covering a wide range of topics connected to the New Urbanism.

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

Levittown has long represented the paradigmatic postwar American suburb. Yet very little in the way of good critical work has been done on the history and significance of this American cultural icon.

Cyburbia – Urban Planning Community

The Cyburbia Forums is the oldest and most active English language urban planning message board on the Internet, and one of the small number of online communities where members enjoy intelligent, troll-free discussion. Cyburbia has hundreds of active members, yet is a strong community full of creative, friendly, and occasionally offbeat planners, planning students, architects, urbanists and other like-minded people who care about and/or help shape the built environment. Cyburbia Forums members enjoy a sense of community and camaraderie that is unmatched by any planning-related web site.

Resources for Urban Design Information

An independent unbiased service, the Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI) is the largest web resource dedicated to urban design and placemaking. RUDI commissions, researches and creates materials for professionals in the public and private sector.

Urban Design Forum

Urban Design Forum Incorporated is a not-for-profit initiative formed with the following statement of purpose:

to encourage the better design of our cities and towns and regions;
to provide a forum where ideas and comment about urban design can be expressed;
to produce, publish and distribute a regular publication;
to be involved in other activities which contribute to the above purposes; and
to co-operate and liase with any individuals or groups who have compatible purposes with the above.

Headspace

Headspace, The Australian Broadcasting
Association’s monthly Arts and Culture Magazine

Society for Responsible Design

Design is a process of creation and problem solving that goes far beyond form or structure and final styling or graphics. As such, great opportunity exists to intervene or change current process and end products to add greater value in many criteria and enhance the concept of sustainability.

The SRD combines the efforts of society and industry through environmentally and socially responsible design practices to make products and services significantly better. There is much room for improvement that will ultimately provide major long term benefits for all. YOUR support and input is invited.

Butter Paper – Greaseproof Architecture Resources

Australian and New Zealand Architecture and Resources. Butter Paper – Greaseproof Architecture Resources.

NSW Legislation

This source site for NSW legislation has been developed by the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office and contains the following features:

NSW legislation in force, both Acts and statutory instruments (regulations etc and environmental planning instruments) that is constantly consolidated and kept up-to-date—the In Force database

historical versions of legislation, including repealed legislation—accessible via the In Force database
an archival collection of NSW legislation as made since 1990—the As Made database
advanced searching and browsing facilities.

Northern Rivers Social Development Council

The Northern Rivers Social Development Council (NRSDC) provides peak representation of the community and social welfare sector in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. The Council is an incorporated body under the NSW Association Incorporation Act 1984, and has been in existence since 1976. The area covered by the Council includes the local government areas of Ballina, Byron, Copmanhurst, Grafton, Kyogle, Lismore, Maclean, Pristine Waters, Richmond River and Tweed.

NSW Department of Planning

The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (DIPNR) seeks to, coordinates and streamlines land-use and transport planning, infrastructure development and natural resource management in New South Wales.

Northern Rivers Performing Arts Association

NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts Association) is Australia’s most successful regional arts organisation.

Australian Institute of Project Management

The Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) is the peak body for project management in Australia. Formed in 1976, as the Project Managers’ Forum, the AIPM has been instrumental in progressing the profession of project management over the past 25 years.

Parks and Leisure Australia

Parks and Leisure Australia has a strong history of over 75 years service to the industry through its predecessor organisations – the Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation and the Australian Leisure Institute. PLA has built on the strengths developed through its past traditions, projects and networks to offer a progressive, dynamic Association, which promotes the values and benefits of parks and leisure within Australian society, whilst actively supporting its strong national membership.

Mayne Investments

Mayne Investments Limited was formed in June 1968. In the years since its establishment, Mayne Investments Limited has expanded to meet the investment needs of North Coast residents across a broad field.

The Fund manages over $164 million in investments.

Invest Northern Rivers

Invest Northern Rivers is the mechanism established by the Northern Rivers Regional Development Board to assist in the promotion of the region. This promotion is carried out in conjunction with partner organisations in the area to engage the investment community and to communicate the opportunities available in the region.

Planning Institute Australia

“PIA is the peak Australian Planning professional organisation that seeks the general advancement of Regional and Town Planning, and promotes development of regions, cities and towns..”

News

Planning chiefs hail smarter, simpler scheme, Kelsey Munro Urban Affairs, December 7, 2011

It’s a start, but all the tough decisions are yet to be made. That’s the industry verdict on the state government’s “once-in-a-generation” overhaul of the state’s moribund Planning Act.

The Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, yesterday released a wide-ranging issues paper that pulled together months of community consultations by review chairmen Ron Dyer and Tim Moore, confirming that the 30-year-old planning system was broken beyond repair.

Rowan Moore, Kevin McCloud’s grand design for British Housing, Guardian 19 Nov 2011

‘The Triangle is in a tradition of model villages beloved of aristocrats, princes, of Brad Pitt in New Orleans and the Bordeaux sugar-cube manufacturer who commissioned workers’ housing from Le Corbusier. Such places can be over-scripted, too much about fulfilling their makers’ picture-book fantasies about contented communities. There is a whiff of this with Hab’s gooey talk about “making people happy”, although they are conscious of the need not to over-control. “If they decide they don’t want to grow food and just want to park cars, we’d be a bit upset,” says Isabel Allen, but in the end it will be up to the residents. Maggie Lowton sounds a note of caution by citing other communities in Swindon that started well but went downhill. No amount of forethought and attention to detail can guarantee the success of the Triangle. But at the very least it is an imaginative and well-designed project, which achieves about as much as can be done with its budget. It focuses on what matters most and gives itself the best chance of success. Which is far more rare than it should be in British house building and a much better application of celebrity philanthropy than most.’

Climate change science being stifled by NSW Labor bureaucrats, Malcolm Holland From: The Daily Telegraph December 02, 2011

SENIOR bureaucrats in the state government’s environment department have routinely stopped publishing scientific papers which challenge the federal government’s claims of sea level rises threatening Australia’s coastline, a former senior public servant said yesterday.

Doug Lord helped prepare six scientific papers which examined 120 years of tidal data from a gauge at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour.

The Next Wave of Modernism: Healing Urban Landscapes, Asladirt, November 23, 2011

“The first wave of modernism was about beauty and sensuality, but the second wave may be about confrontation – confronting the mistakes of the past,” said Brad McKee, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine, at The Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation, a day-long conference organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. McKee described the changes that have overcome American cities: the rise of global competition and the decline of large-scale manufacturing, the mass number of companies and people who fled industrial waterfronts, leaving toxic wastelands. “This is the industrial legacy designers confront.”

He added that toxic brownfield sites have proliferated over the years with devastating but often undiagnosed effects on families. The idea that human health and the built environment are linked has only been gaining steam in the past 10 years. But now at least, “obesity, diabetes, asthma, depression, anxiety can all be attributed to factors in the environment.” For McKee, the public is also now skeptical about “big ideas”, grand concepts imposed by policymakers and designers. Urban dwellers can see the damage these ideas can cause so the next waves of Modernism in cities may focus more on “places for people,” and integrating public health and ecological sustainability into design.

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