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Greener cities by design - sustainable urban developmentDate: Wednesday 1 April For Community, Monash students and staff Format Public lecture Overview Over 80 per cent of Australians live in cities which are the source of 75 per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions. It is evident that if we are to meet the challenge of ‘climate change' we will need to rapidly reconfigure the way our cities operate. This reconfiguration needs to take place within the context that 90 per cent of our City's 2020 infrastructure will have been built by 2009. The challenge will not be building our way out of the problem, but rather how we reconfigure existing infrastructure to account for the needs of climatic change. This highly topical presentation will look at a simple pragmatic way of reconfiguring Australian cities to meet this challenge. Presented by Professor Rob Adams AM, Director, Design and Urban Environment, City of Melbourne About the speaker Rob Adams is Director of City Design and Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne. An award winning urban designer, he is committed to engaging the community and government and to cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Rob has over thirty years' experience as a practising architect and urban designer. Now with the City of Melbourne he is producing design-research based urban projects and strategies, and has attracted over 65 state and national awards for excellence. In 2008 Rob was crowned the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year at the prestigious Banksia Awards. A champion of both the arts and environmental sustainability he has worked to ensure that good urban design is established as a platform for city development into the 21st Century. To book This event is fully booked. Getting there Use this opportunity to leave the car at home:
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