what's old . . . design and planning

A selection of conference papers, research articles and critical writing on design, sustainability, architecture and planning. Here are some of our pieces you can access easily. For more recent work see whats new

‘Sydney (Un)Ltd'  People and Place vol 9 no 2, Anne-Marie Willis & Tony Fry, June 2001

Article arguing for the need for new thinking and planning to confront the problem of Sydney's population  that is expanding both in terms of numbers and per capita impacts.  Click here to view article

‘Design in the Shadow of Impact Population’ People and Place vol 8 no 3, Anne-Marie Willis,  2000

Article examining the challenge that reducing the per capita resource and energy use of urban populations poses for architects and planners. 
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‘The Pro-duct of Planning’ paper by Tony Fry for Sustainable Cities Conference, Newcastle, NSW, October 1998

Paper argues that urban planning needs to be radically raconfigured, not by asking ‘what should be planned?’ but rather ‘what plans?’ Click here to view article