Posted 14 May 2012 10:00am
Professor Stephen Dovers, Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society will present at Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, 5.30 to 7.00PM, Cnr Liversidge St and Garran Rd, followed by refreshments. Please RSVP to colette.gilmour@anu.edu.au by Thursday 17 May 2012 for catering purposes.
As we approach 2013, this lecture invites consideration of identifying Canberra not only as national capital but also as a nationally recognised experiment and laboratory for the ecologically sustainable and humanly desirable development of Australia settlements and landscapes. Canberra could be that laboratory, but is not yet. If we accept that we are still settling Australia and learning how to live in Australian environments, what better place to explicitly undertake that learning than Canberra? A young city, with an extraordinary endowment of research and knowledge institutions, a population that should be positively inclined, suitable institutional capacities and planning frameworks, a unique combination of local and state government functions, and a viable mix of urban form and non-urban landscapes. Such a role may even over time reverse the diminished status of the nation's capital in the national public discourse.
Please see the event flyer below for more information.