336I_Jon Mills, Director at Urbis

"We don't have to go back to business-as-usual [approaches] just because that's how we did it 20 years ago. That's not what we have to do now."

Are you interested in urban evolution? What do you think about the city as a producer instead of consumer? How can we investigate unintended consequences of urban transformations?

Interview with Jon Mills, Director at Urbis. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban evolution, transformative forces, unintended consequences, and many more.

Jon Mills is an environmental planner and project manager with more than 20 years’ experience in Australia and the UK. Jon’s predominate experience is in leading teams to assist clients through project positioning and approvals processes for large infrastructure projects particularly within energy and communications sectors with a focus on Renewable Energy, Digital Infrastructure and sustainability planning policy and advice. Jon’s work in these areas includes leading  statutory planning and environmental approvals strategic papers and policy work for all levels of government and NGO’s as well as providing, planning and strategic advice. This includes Environmental planning strategies, built environment sustainability advice (particularly in energy transition) and strategies, policy and advice around digital infrastructure and integration of technology into the cities and regions. Currently Jon is advocating for energy transition to be inclusive of nature positive solutions and for this and other sustainability initiatives to be considered in the planning process. Jon is also part of the Urbis team working with NBN to develop the nationally significant and industry-leading prospectus: 'Accelerating Smarter Development for Australia'.

Find out more about Jon through these links:

• Jon Mills on LinkedIn

• Jon Mills on the Urbis website
• Urbis website
• Urbis on LinkedIn
• @UrbisAustralia as Urbis on X
• @urbis_au as Urbis on Instagram

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.314 - Interview with Andrew Vass about nuclear power
• No.324 - Interview with Fin Moorhouse about unintended consequences
• No.335R - A framework for exploring futures of complex urban energy systems
• No.344 - Interview with Mark Coates about infrastructure

You can find the transcript through ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this link.

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