City Resilience In Melbourne

City Resilience In Melbourne

Host Lukas Petridis explores what city resilience looks like in practice by exploring case studies in Melbourne and across the world. Supported by the City of Melbourne and the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne.

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December 4, 2023 36 mins

Michele Acuto, Director for the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the fifth episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast.

In this episode, Michele and Lukas discusses working with the City of Melbourne on the Night Time economy, things Michele wished he knew as a student that he now knows as a professor, Michele’s book ‘How To Build A Global City’ and the c...

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Lisa Gibbs, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Unit in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Academic Lead for Community Resilience and Public Health in the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the fourth episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Lisa’s research focuses on disaster recovery and resilience part...

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December 4, 2023 29 mins

Farema Yazdi, a volunteer co-director at Climates, a non-for-profit organisation, as well as senior policy officer at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the third episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Farema’s work focuses on climate change policy – specifically within the climate science team; adaptation and risk branch – working towards building Victor...

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December 4, 2023 31 mins

Dr Gary Veale, Executive director of Centre for Sustainability at Melbourne Business School, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the second episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast.

In this episode, the past teacher, biologist and KPMG Director discusses whether the media’s discourse towards climate change and city resilience is justified, the differences between Sydney and Melbourne in terms of green spaces in th...

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December 4, 2023 15 mins

Professor Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the first episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Sarah’s research addresses urban resilience and community engagement infrastructure, drawing on the social sciences to better understand how people, nature and technologies interact to create urban systems.

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December 4, 2023 3 mins

Follow Host Lukas Petridis, Bachelor of Environments and Society in exploring the City of Melbourne's ability to adapt, survive, and thrive in the face of shocks and stresses, both acute and chronic.

City Resilience in Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.

 

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