Urban Sprawl debate

August 31, 2008 – 12:51 pm

A debate quietly surfaced last week in the Australian media following a media release from the Australian Institute of Architects (now AIA not RAIA as before in case you had not noticed).

Their comment seemed to be based on a re-badging of their previous Urban Design policy and a public announcement of its presence along with a statement attacking everyone about urban sprawl.

Unfortunately, given the tone of the statements, the  AIA became the subject of the debate rather than the important topic they were attempting to raise (about urban sprawl that is, not their recycled policy).

There were two reports of the AIA comments, one in the Australian and another online.

The AILA has offered comment at times to various governments on the topic of the continual urban sprawl and the desire to seek improved design solutions for our urban environments.

The AILA  is working for the longer term to have some National Landscape Principles taken up by all local governments within their urban design strategies and protocols.

This project on landscape principles will be the subject of consultations later this year and into next year as part of AILA’s Commonwealth funded Climate Change project.

Meanwhile we welcome comments from members on the topic of urban sprawl - or on any topic relating to urban design and landscape architects.   also check the AILA news pages for other news

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