Newsletter November 2016In this issue:

� Events to date in 2016

� Upcoming events to watch out for

� We welcome a new Practitioner In Residence

� Research grants awarded

� Update on past grants

For more: sydney.edu.au/halloran

Newsletter November 2016

Events Held to date this year Value Capture: Opportunities and Risks Thursday 09 June, 2016 Professor Peter Phibbs, the Director of the Henry Halloran Trust, lead a conversation about what Value Capture is and how it helps fund things that would make cities better places. He was joined by two recent graduates of the Urban Planning program, Michael Cuthbert and Richard O'Gorman Hughes who have recently completed research studies on Value Capture in Sydney. Chris Johnson, CEO of The Urban Taskforce joined Professor Nicole Gurran from the University of Sydney in response to the presentations and took questions from the audience. The Fourth Annual Henry Halloran Trust Lecture "Housing Affordability in Australia and the UK: Common Problems and Common Solutions” Professor Meen from the University of Reading, UK Wednesday 27 July, 2016 Thanks to everyone who came along and a special thanks to Professor Meen for delivering an amazing presentation for the Fourth Annual Henry Halloran Trust Lecture. We have had overwhelming interest in Professor Meen's content and further works, and he has very kindly shared his slides, accessible on our website Resources page. The Festival of Urbanism: City Limits Monday 1st – 12th August, 2016 This years festival examined the opportunities for better approaches to city building The theme of the Festival was highlighting the potential for new technology to provide a solution to some of these difficult problems and to address the question of what really makes a smart city. Metropolitan Planning and Governance - Lessons for the Greater Sydney Commission from North America Tuesday 16th August, 2016 This event is co-sponsored by;

• The Henry Halloran Trust • Australian Institute of Urban Studies (NSW Division) • Western Sydney University

• JBA Planning The citywide approach to metropolitan planning has a long history in North America. One of the key exemplars of this approach is Portland, Oregon. Ric Stephens, the President of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, discussed what has been going in Portland and drew out some lessons for metropolitan planning in Sydney. Jack Mundey and the Green Bans - Lessons for today and the future Wednesday 19th October, 2016 Presented by Jim Colman - Sydney based architect, planner and part time University lecturer and Kurt Iveson - Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney. This lecture focused on Millers Point and the Rocks being transformed by the sell off by the current government. The audience were encouraged to reflect on what the area could have looked like if the former Liberal premier, Bob Askin had got his way and how through the efforts of Jack Mundey and the green bans we were able to preserve such an important part of the city. Looking at the various current plans for Sydney we can't help but ask the question that was asked at the time of the green bans - Whose city is it? Women’s Travel North and South: Changing Societal Trends and the Travel Patterns0 Tuesday 25th October, 2016 This Event was co–hosted with The Urban Housing Lab and presented by Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom; Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin, USA

and the Director of the Innovation in Infrastructure program at the Urban Institute, Washington, DC.

This presentation discussed how Women are more impacted, generally negatively, than men by major societal trends like globalization, urbanization, motorization, and socio-demographic transitions because they have less access to better transport services and technologies, display very different travel patterns in which are embedded multiple domestic and parental responsibilities, and suffer more fear and anxiety in travel.

Towards a New Generation of Metropolitan Innovation Strategies? Thursday 27th October 2016 Presented by Nicolas Buchoud, chair of the Grand Paris Alliance and a trusted and skilled advocate of cities and their ability to invent a more sustainable future.

The Trust sponsors 3 Uni of Sydney PhD students to participate in Chinese workshop The Henry Halloran Trust is assisting the sponsorship of a high level Phd student workshop at the University of Sydney’s new Suzhou Conference Centre. The PhD workshop will invite three experts to offer advice to PhD candidates from the University of Sydney, Tsinghua University, and Tongji University, each of whom will give a 15-minute presentation on PhD research. The Trust is assisting with the travel costs of 3 PhD students from the University of Sydney. Planning Training for Aboriginal Land Councils The Director of the Trust, Professor Peter Phibbs, has been contracted by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment to provide a short course on An Introduction to the NSW Planning system to NSW Land Councils. He is conducting a pilot course for this project in Sydney on December 6th and 7th.

Upcoming Events Not to be missed Lecture Theatre 250, Wilkinson Building 6pm – 8pm Wednesday 30th November, 2016 Co-Sponsored with The City of Sydney University Keep this date free for a Panel discussion about The Central Sydney Planning Strategy; https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-central-sydney-planning-strategy-tickets-28643112320

Research Grants awarded We are excited to announce that the Trust Advisory Board agreed to fund two new Incubators:

• Housing for Health: Fixing Infrastructure and Housing Policy in Indigenous Australia and Beyond A/P Tess Lea, Prof Allan McConnell, Prof Michael Tawa, Prof Paul Torzillo, Dr Christian Tietz and Mr Adrian Welke The supply and maintenance of affordable housing and infrastructure remains one of the most vexed issues confronting Indigenous public policy. Houses remain in need of major repair or replacement; and often lack sufficient water supplies, washing facilities, or sewage to be functional. As a partial correction, the Housing for Health program restores some function by testing and fixing vital health hardware. The greater challenge is ensuring better design, installation and maintenance in the first instance. This Incubator critically examines the policy obstacles to such systemic change while providing practical models for improved housing.

• Organising the 21st Century City: An International Comparison of Urban Alliances as Citizen Engagement AP Kurt Iveson, Prof John Keane,Dr Madeleleine Pill, Dr Adrienne Keane, Prof Helga Leitner, A/P Mark Davidson, Prof Jane Wills, Prof Romand Coles and Prof Leo Penta In a growing number of cities, citizens are channeling frustration with existing citizen engagement processes into the creation of urban alliances that bring together diverse civil society actors to articulate and pursue common interests. The intention of such alliances is to enable citizens to play a proactive role in the shaping of their cities, as an alternative to the reactive role they are often ascribed in existing governance and planning frameworks. This will be the first international comparative study of these alliances. Through desk-based mapping and qualitative case studies, the project will examine their global extent, their different forms and activities, their relationship to existing forms of citizen participation in existing structures of urban governance and planning, and their effectiveness as infrastructures for

citizen engagement and empowerment. The research will contribute to scholarly understanding of citizen participation in urban governance and planning. It will also make significant practical contributions to the efforts of citizens seeking to build new infrastructures for participating in urban governance, and it will also aid the efforts of those working in planning agencies who are seeking more genuine citizen participation. Congratulations to Tess Lea and Kurt Iveson and their teams who worked hard on these proposals. We look forward to hearing more about their activities.  

Research grant update: Completed project :

• Agonistic community engagement in planning: Understanding community knowledge, community demand and structural constraints Dr Dallas Rogers, Western Sydney University, Dr Cameron McAuliffe, Western Sydney University, Dr Awais Piracha, Western Sydney University, and Dr Laura Schatz, Western Sydney University The aim of this research was to identify and develop a new conceptual approach to community engagement in planning that responds to contemporary critiques and provides pathways to more effective democratic involvement in urban development in contemporary Australian cities. In this study, we focused on the New South Wales (NSW) planning system The Report will soon be available on the website

News from our Urban Housing Lab:

• In the press The Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Dr. Somwrita Sarkar of the Urban Housing Lab, which was founded as the Trust’s first research incubator in 2015. The interview focused on the growing inequality between Sydney’s rich and poor, a trend that is increasing in parallel with the city’s population. The full article can be found online; http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/sydney-gets-richer-as-it-gets-bigger-but-theres-a-catch-20161116-gsqfiu.html

• PIR Program We are proud to announce that Kieran Thomas, Practitioner-In-Residence for the Urban Housing Lab, has released his full paper on the outcomes resulting from the codification of Housing supply data across greater Sydney. Kieran completed his PIR under the guidance of Professor Nicole Gurran from the UHL and our own Co-coordinator of the PIR program, Dr Michael Bounds. His report outlines the purposes and benefits to a codified approach and the possible impact this might have on the decisions of policy makers with regards to zoning of medium density housing.

• New research opportunities advertised Three new research opportunities have been advertised. They include the four positions in total listed below (two R.A. positions). Visit The Henry Halloran Trust research page for more details and for links to the detailed role descriptions as well as the application processes. • A Practitioner in Residence opportunity,

applications close 9th November 2016 • 2 Research Associate opportunities,

applications close 9th November 2016 • A Visiting Professor/Scholar opportunity,

applications close 5th December 2016

About the trust The objective of this trust is to promote scholarship, innovation and research in town planning, urban development and land management. This will be achieved through collaborative cross-disciplinary and industry research that will generate innovative approaches to urban and regional policy, planning and development issues. Research will cover vital issues such as governance, taxation, the role of public and private finance in the implementation of development, transportation, law, land and building tenure, ecology and energy and water use with respect to sustainability.

Competitive research grants

Strategic partnership grants Strategic partnership grants are grants where the Trust shares research funding in conjunction with other funders/ organisations. These grants award $25,000 to the recipients.

Blue sky project grants The Trust will promote explorations and research into innovative ideas and concepts that focus on the interactions between the environment, technology and community which stimulate new ideas/practices about land use and settlement design. These grants also award $25,000 to the recipients.

Incubator grants The role of the incubator is to assist a talented teaching and research academic to focus their efforts on a major research project, with the assistance of small team partly funded by the Trust.

For further information, visit our website http://sydney.edu.au/halloran/