Each year PIA Queensland awards prizes for the best performance by students enrolled in planning courses. This is an important, visible way for PIA to recognise the importance of academic achievement and research. On Monday 31 July 2023, planning students, practitioners, and academics came together to celebrate and support the next generation of planners at … Continue reading
Our fabulous student societies, BRUCE, Design Society, and Organisation of Planning Students (OOPS) will be hosting a welcome BBQ at 12:30pm on Wednesday 26 July which is open to all staff and students. Come by the front of Zelman Cowen (blg 51) to grab yourself a bite and socialise with others from the school as … Continue reading
The Tertiary Studies Expo is an annual event where young people (and their parents) interrogate university staff and students on the learning opportunities and job prospects in their chosen field of studies. These young people are savvy shoppers and worked the room to better understand the experiences offered by different universities in SEQ and beyond. … Continue reading
The joint studio between UQ and UGM (Universitas Gadjah Mada) has started! We are very excited to have resumed this course after the ‘Covid-19 break’. The course is PLAN3200/7200 Understanding development complexities. This is a joint studio course delivered annually between UQ and UGM in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, since 2015. Students from urban planning, geography, environmental … Continue reading
Augustin Bauchot, a UQ|UP PhD student, has just passed the first PhD milestone at UQ. Congratulations, Augustin! His PhD thesis is about urbanisation and climate change adaptation in Suva, Fiji. While Pacific Islands have become symbols of climate change vulnerability worldwide, counter-narratives valorising community resilience and Indigenous knowledge have been pushed forward in Pacific studies. … Continue reading
This week, Stephanie Wyeth’s first year Planning students put on their ‘urban design’ goggles and explored the St Lucia Campus. We talked about what works and what doesn’t, how the campus continues to change – just like the city – and how the built environment influences our connections to people, place and opportunity. Big thanks … Continue reading
Last week UQ students enrolled in PLAN3005/7121 Community participation in Planning did a site visit to the four landing locations of the Green Bridges that will be connecting West End to Toowong and West End to St Lucia in inner city Brisbane. We visited the four sites by the Brisbane River. In the former ABC … Continue reading
At UQ|UP we take the task of developing the next generation of urban strategists and planning practitioners seriously. Working with our Planning Education Advisory Board, Stephanie Wyeth has been reshaping our final year program to include a greater emphasis on the essential skills, capabilities and experiences required in a graduate’s planning toolkit. The Western Corridor … Continue reading
Coordinated by longtime UQ|UP collaborator Stuart Donovan, this course runs over three days: from 3-5 July, at Southbank. The course builds from similar courses that Stuart has delivered in Amsterdam and Auckland. The earlybird price, which ends in February, is set at $900, on which students receive a 50% discount. The course is designed to … Continue reading
This chapter reviews and summarizes the literature on passive design strategies employed in cities with (a) hot and humid climates which are prone to monsoons, typhoons, and/or floods, and (2) hot and arid climates which are prone to intense sunshine, droughts, and/or sandstorms. Case studies include Guangzhou, Bangkok, Singapore, Granada, Athens, and Yazd. For all … Continue reading