Session Outline
- Session Chair - Melanie Venter, NTRO
- Sonja Hayes, PJA - "Placemaking" - Necessary, or Not?
- Sam Williams, PJA - Are Engineers the Enemy of Placemakers?
- James Wiley, Ramboll - Reimagining Connectivity: Collaborative Practices for Integrated Community Infrastructure
- Nick Veitch, VLC - Using People Movement Data to guide the delivery of Movement and Place frameworks
Sonja Hayes, PJA - "Placemaking" - Necessary, or Not?
Sonja Hayes
PJA
Sonja is a traffic engineer, with over 14 years experience. She began her career in road safety in Wellington, NZ, and has recently moved toward transport planning, with a keen interest in active travel and placemaking alongside road safety. She is a mother of 4 and relocated to Australia in 2012.
"Placemaking" - Necessary, or Not?
Placemaking as a dedicated expert subject has stirred up debate; surely engineers, planners and architects should include “place” elements as a stock-standard inclusion in all designs. Is a specialist field warranted? How are projects benefitting from expert guidance in an area that is somewhat grey in its definition?
Sam Williams, PJA - Are Engineers the Enemy of Placemakers?
Sam Williams
PJA
An innovative thinker who has over 14 years' experience providing civil engineering, infrastructure, sustainable drainage and engineering advice for regeneration and new development projects. A proven engineer who is passionate about early engagement within all developments.
Are Engineers the Enemy of Placemakers?
Civil Engineers and can be referred to as the thorn in the shoe of placemakers. Requiring more roadspace, increasing the size of intersections, trees being removed and value engineering all being casualties of the engineering process.
Is this the necessary evil of developments, are standards out of date, or do engineers need to be more flexible in their approach. These are the questions we look to explore and understand the true issues to unlocking better places through great design.
James Wiley, Ramboll - Reimagining Connectivity: Collaborative Practices for Integrated Community Infrastructure
James Wiley
Co-Author | Ramboll
James has over thirteen years of experience working on multi-disciplinary projects across Australia, Africa and the Middle East and currently leads the Smart Mobility team in Sydney. Over the years James has worked a variety of projects ranging from strategic transport planning, city and precinct masterplanning, port and coastal development planning. Currently he is focusing his efforts on sustainable transport and green mobility initiatives, from walking and cycling to e-mobility, which support communities and enhance access whilst improving liveability within precincts and cities.
Author
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson | Ramboll
Rebecca is a urban planner and designer with over 7 years’ experience in urban, regional and strategic development. She specialises in delivering inclusive development strategies and designs, bringing together diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
Co-Author
Marianne Weinreich | Ramboll
For more than 20 years Marianne Weinreich has advised cities about sustainable mobility policy and promotion and mobility management. She’s an expert in cycling policy and promotion.
The last 5 years she been Market Manager in Ramboll’s Smart Mobility division where she besides working with clients is leading the thought leadership program. As part of that she was lead author of the report “Gender and (smart) mobility” published March 2021 and “Walking and cycling data – practice, challenges, needs and gaps” from Dec 2022.
She is also co-founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark and an experienced speaker at and moderator of cycling and mobility webinars and conferences around the World.
Reimagining Connectivity: Collaborative Practices for Integrated Community Infrastructure
Transforming active travel networks and attitudes to active travel in suburbia. Lessons learnt from Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Ireland which are very relevant when considering Australia’s increased focus on encouraging and integrating active transport modes into the mix for all users irrespective of age, gender, physical ability and/or socio-economic circumstance.
Nick Veitch, VLC - Using People Movement Data to guide the delivery of Movement and Place frameworks
Nick Veitch
VLC
As the Managing Director, Nick’s role is to ensure VLC continues to be an industry leader in transport advisory, helping clients solve complex transport problems.
Co-Author(s)
Ali Inayathusein | VLC
| As Executive Director (Modelling and Analytics), Ali ensures that we have a coordinated approach to understanding client needs, leading our efforts to bring new research, data and analytical techniques to drive the evidence base for infrastructure planning and policy making. |
Using People Movement Data to guide the delivery of Movement and Place frameworks
Movement and Place frameworks take a multi-faceted, place-based approach to designing transport networks and the public spaces that they create and impact. Optimising these spaces requires a holistic and granular understanding of:
- How people move through these places
- How they move to and from them
- How they move within them
We show how mobile phone-derived location data (People Movement Data) can be used to analyse each of the dimensions described above through a range of case studies in different Australian cities.
