Urban trees and their associated living habitats are misunderstood when it comes to urban planning and the role living structures play in sustaining a sense of place and well-being. Listen to our interview with Radio 2SER-FM.
Here comes the sun… A podcast from Radio 2SER-FM’s Razor’s Edge program on social inequality and some burning truths.
“An architect might have a vision. Look at my wonderful green vision. They get permissions from councils and other bodies. Along the way to it being developed the money runs out. And suddenly the green bits fall off first. Eventually you have a non-green landscape. The notion of amenity has gone.” – Dr Peter Davies in a report from City Hub, Sydney.
Radio National’s ‘Life Matters’ features one of the main speakers from our ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ conference – Dr Marco Amati, an environmental scientist and Associate Professor of International Planning at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research. The program investigates how green spaces can be increased in urban environments.
“We’ve gone from planted Australian suburbs of the post-War period to a different kind of Australian dream: more built up and denser, an unregulated death by a 1000 cuts to the urban forest.”
Tune in here to a great podcast conversation from 2SER-FM with our own Bruce Knobloch discussing the Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference at Addison Road Community Centre on Friday 24th May.
Can a dying tree save a city?
A major new conference called ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ is being convened this Friday in Marrickville at the Addison Road Community Centre. It will look how we can create a greener, better city for living creatures of all kinds, ourselves included.
