Join us as we explore how to build genuine connection between regions and cities without flattening each place's distinct identity.
Reshaping regional-metro relationships through infrastructure.
Transport has always shaped how places evolve. The railways, highways and commuter corridors built - or withheld - over the past two centuries have created lasting translocal connections and divides between metropolitan and regional Australia.
Today, major projects such as the East Coast High Speed Rail and Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop promise to redraw these relationships again, bringing new forms of density, investment and mobility to regional centres.
As these places become more closely linked to metropolitan networks, this panel asks what is gained and what may be lost when regional character begins to shift in the image of the city.
Presented by the Monash Association of Planning Students (MAPS) in collaboration with Transport Engineers at Monash (TEM), this session brings together transport engineers and urban planners to explore how to build genuine connection between regions and cities without flattening the distinct identities, cultures and histories that make each place unique.
Presented by Monash University Art, Design and Architecture.
Moderated by
Adrian Del-Re, Master of Urban Planning and Design student and MAPS, Monash University
James Wulie, Bachelor of Civil Engineering student and TEM, Monash University
Speakers
Professor Liton Kamruzzaman, ARC Future Fellow, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Monash University
Dr James Whitten, Lecturer, Urban Planning and Design, Monash University
Marianne Richards, President, Town and Country Planning Association Inc, Institute of Transport Engineers, Rail Futures Institute