Enjoying lovely provocation & intimate reflection by Kathy Mee & #MichelleDuffy on what it means to traverse the Australian outback by train for conferences. The talk cuts across many threads; work mobility, sticky #care and mobility/ immobility, #carbon impact & #ClimateChange

#Wellington #Architecture #MashUp #Eclecticism #Blandscapes #Blendscapes #Brutalscapes #Brutopianscapes #

@CityByrne 🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘 ACRN-SOAC Ash Alam Iain White UPR_Journal Tony Matthews @Wellington_NZ Victoria University Wellington has a lot of wood housing. The second largest wooden building in the world (until 1998) now houses the VUW law school, down by the parliamentary precinct.

Haere mai to the urban nerds who will be descending on Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington for the AECURN PhD Symposium prior to the 2023 State of Australasian Cities conference ACRN-SOAC . Read more of the buzz at architecturenow.co.nz/articles/urban… and talkwellington.org.nz Joel MacManus

#Wellington #NewZealand #Aotearoa #CBD #Retail #Urbanism #SOAC2023 #SOAC23 ACRN-SOAC Ash Alam @CityByrne Jago Dodson LouG Wellington City Council

@CityByrne 🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘 ACRN-SOAC Ash Alam LouG Wellington City Council Also, Wellington is a national capital, around the same population as Canberra, thus hosts large public service, but also has a wider economic base, eg port linked to regional production.

ACRN-SOAC Ash Alam Iain White @CityByrne Jago Dodson UPR_Journal Tony Matthews 🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘 @Wellington_NZ Victoria University talkwellington.org.nz/2023/400-urban…

Thnx 2 Palavermedia & Talk Wellington 4 this feature on ACRN-SOAC #SOAC2023 conference. Amazing effort by #NZ/#Aotearoa colleagues in pulling things 2gether 4 20th anniversary of #SOAC. This is largest SOAC conference EVER! 🤘🙏🤘 talkwellington.org.nz/2023/400-urban… @Wellington_NZ RNZ

Great to have arrived in Wellington and on the Airport Express bus en route to ACRN-SOAC #soac2023. I seem to have brought along a plane load of @RMIT_CUR colleagues. Its a cliche but: youtu.be/a4xNdyVPDJQ?si…

Excellent City Talk event not to miss this evening - Wednesday 6 December - allied to #SOAC2023 ACRN-SOAC Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Thanks Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA for another engrossing year of City Talk(er)s and the warm-hearted hosting by CityGalleryWellington

Amazing to finally be back at SOAC seeing wonderful friends and colleagues and meeting new ones! #soac23 ACRN-SOAC

Interesting paper on #informalhousing & #socio-spatial inequalities in Australian cities by Dr Zahra Nasreen, Nicole & Pranita ACRN-SOAC #SOAC2023

Congratulations to the ACRN-SOAC #soac2023 conveners esp Iain White for a tremendous conference. Great presentations and conversations supported by generous whakawhanaungatanga/manaakitanga. Tino pai te hui! (And Wellington remains unbeaten on *3* good days)

The Incubator presented key findings ACRN-SOAC w Elle Davidson speaking on Indigenous planning, Jago Dodson Jago Dodson as discussant & Dallas Rogers recording as a podcast ep (TBA) Tooran Alizadeh | توران علیزاده @CrystalLegacy1 Liton Kamruzzaman Festival of Urbanism Sydney Architecture, Design and Planning Dr Rebecca Clements 🍉 Glen Hartley Searle

Some snapshots from our ACRN-SOAC Conference 2023#urban studies#planning#Australasiancities

New The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article from A/Prof Louise Grimmer & I on competition between #CBD retail, #ShoppingCentres & #onlineshopping & how this is reshaping #cities out now theconversation.com/how-the-retail… UWA Research ABC News ABC Perth ABC Melbourne ABC Sydney ABC Adelaide ABC Brisbane 6PR Perth

Our latest The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article…🤘Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn🤘 and I explain the tension between different retail channels and the impact on cities University of Tasmania Tasmanian School of Business & Economics UWA SBS Australia ABC News The New Daily news.com.au Inside Retail Australia How the retailing contest between CBDs, shopping

ACRN-SOAC is seeking 3 new volunteer members & keen 2 receive EOIs that help support its mission of equity, diversity & inclusion. Plse send a EOI by Fri 16 Feb Name:  Position:  Institution/Faculty:  Career Status: ECR, MCR, SCR  Why u want 2 join ACRN Ctte (100 words max)

Please send ur short expression of interest to Prof. Wendy Steele (rmit.edu.au) and Prof Iain White (waikato.ac.nz)