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Sustainability and Urban Planning
Associate Professor Wendy Steele discusses the significant challenges that face cities of the future and how planners will address these issues and create liveable spaces.
Sustainability and Urban Planning – transcript
Associate Professor Wendy Steele discusses the significant challenges that face cities of the future and how planners will address these issues and create liveable spaces.
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Duration: 1:34 mins
Visual: Associate Professor Wendy Steele talking to the camera with animated shapes, symbols and words highlighting elements of her script.
Wendy Steele: The idea of the wild city allows us to think about how we fit within the city as part of that broader mosaic of human nature relations.
Cities shape us, and we shape it, and that interrelationship is where planning sits right at that nexus.
My name is Wendy Steele, I’m an Associate Professor at RMIT in Urban Planning and Environment.
What’s really exciting about working in the area of urban and environmental planning is that you’re offering solutions and ways forward in uncertain times.
At the moment we’re being confronted in cities with a number of significant challenges: climate change, moving towards a low carbon future, our whole world is morphing and changing.
As planners we have the unique challenge to help navigate equitable and fair ways forward that brings the whole of our community along with us.
One of the strengths of the RMIT program is that it really seeks to ground theory into practice. We have a number of opportunities for students to undertake field excursions both locally and internationally.
Students can also undertake a work practicum where they are located within a consultancy or a local or state government in a more hands-on way.
Staff at RMIT are really passionate about the work that they do. They’re focused in their own research on creating sustainable cities. A key aim of planning is about furthering a sustainable future for all people, and that’s what really interests us.
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