Wednesday, 17 February 2010
The University of Western Australia is hosting a lecture offering food for thought from an international scholar as Perth and its planners move towards the next stage of the Directions 2031: A Draft Spatial Framework for Perth and Peel and proposals to develop the Perth foreshore.
Planner and historian David Gordon is Professor and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen's University in Canada.
His lecture will draw lessons from studies of fifteen capital cities, including Ottawa and Canberra, and major urban waterfront redevelopment projects in New York, London, Boston and Toronto.
WHAT: Urban History and Urban/Regional Planning Lecture
Building Big Plans: Implementation Lessons for Capital Cities and
Waterfronts
WHERE: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography and Geology Building, UWA
WHEN: 5pm, Friday February 26, 2009
COST: Gold coin donation with all proceeds going to the Fred Hollows Foundation.
RSVP REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT
Send RSVPs, marked ‘David Gordon Lecture', to [email protected] by 22 nd February 2010.
Media references
Professor Jenny Gregory
(UWA School of Humanities) (+61 8) 6488 2134
Dr Paul Maginn
(UWA Urban and Regional Planning) (+618) 6488 2711 / (+61 4) 21 545 190
Janine MacDonald
(UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 5563 / (+61 4) 32 637 716
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