Urban Life Enabled

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Feb 2024

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Welcome to the Urban Life Enabled podcast, the podcast exploring what’s now, and what’s next on sustainably shaping our streets, parks, places and spaces, and how technology and data supports this. Episode by episode, we will work to unravel some of the common, and more emerging digital and data enablers that are powering life in our communities and cities. We will cover themes around connecting, activating and measuring. The Urban Life Enabled podcast is powered by ENE.HUB. More information is available at www.life-enabled.com

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February 26, 202427 min

Episode 20: Measurement with meaning: Civic Analytics & the public domain

In this episode we speak with David Wasserman - Civic Analytics Practice Leader at Alter Planning in Seattle (WA) USA, and Chair of the Technology Division at the American Planning Association. From data ingestion, to political soundbite. From data overload, to digital know how. Join us as we get a first hand glimpse of the changing face of planning practices for place intelligence. David references a range of resources in his interview, including: The APA Technology Division Resource List https://empirical-urbanist.io/ https://altago.com/services/civic-analytics/ Alta Flow Map Example - https://flowmap.altago.site/1PtM0BYQ0Yq0NL-ZGCC9o3yQ6o8hQVrd5IfolMO7Zxwc?v=46.866280,-96.784150,11.99,0,0&a=1&as=1&b=1&bo=75&c=1&ca=1&d=1&fe=1&lt=1&lfm=ALL&col=BluGrn&f=50 Papers of Interest: https://www.planning.org/planning/2020/oct/art-of-learning-by-example/ https://issuu.com/apatransport/docs/2022_sotp/s/16021621 https://www.planning.org/publications/document/9232733/

November 1, 202348 min

Episode 19: Street Lab Part 4_Public-area mobile robots, and the city

In this next edition of our Street Lab series we tackle even more change for the public realm and our streets - the introduction of public-area mobile robots (PMR). Thankfully we had Bern Grush from the Urban Robotics Foundation join us to breakdown where this agenda is at, where it is likely to be heading and what it means for our streets. Will we take stock and 'ready' ourselves for this discussion, or react and engage only after we wake up one morning and find we have been napping on the issue?

October 22, 202336 min

Episode 18: Street Lab Part 3_Where my e-mobility study tour took me

In our third part of a series exploring the evolving nature of our streets, we head deeper into the world of e-mobility. In this episode Adam sits down with recent Churchill Fellow, Nikki Huddy, who is a decorated planner and advocate for place-based solutions in our communities, particularly regional Australia. Fresh from her reasearch tour of the United States, Nikki shares what she found and learned, and what this might mean for Australia. You can view Nikki's reseach report here.

August 17, 202352 min

Episode 17: Rebooting digital infrastructure planning

In this episode we share a recording of a webinar hosting by the life_Enabled team. “Let’s ‘add’ a digital overlay, to the planning we have already done”, seems to be the norm. And this may not be the best outcome for our communities. Where are we at, and what's next for digital infrastructure planning? Our panel exploring the topic includes Catherine Hill from Jacobs, Jon Obrien from GWI, Heath Gledhill from Aurecon and Ian Hatton from ENE.HUB.

August 14, 202327 min

Episode 16: A moment in time_US cities, innovation and data

The National League of Cities is an advocacy organisation that has been representing cities in the United States for almost 100 years. With more than 2,700 city members, Joshua Pine - NLC's Program Manager for City Innovation and Data - has his hands full. We checked in with Joshua to hear what's happening on the city innovation front post-pandemic.

August 11, 202329 min

Episode 15: Street Lab Part 2_Place invaders, space enablers

In second part of a series exploring the face of our streets, Adam chats with Graham McCabe (Director, Transport Advisory, Urbis) about vehicles space and time. The discussion looked at the physical aspects of this important public space - trends in vehicle size, electrification and the opportunity with reshaping space allocation. And with an additional load mounting in the right-of-way in the form of 5G mmWave technology, the complexity of our streets continues to challenge us. Please note: the quality of the audio in this episode was impacted by an unstable connection.

August 7, 20231 hr 0 min

Episode 14: Living infrastructure: The power of Digital Twins

The purpose of this webinar was to look into how Digital Twin capability can support our aspirations of enhancing our natural landscapes and built environment projects, while ensuring digital technology and data insights provide a supporting and enabling role. Our panel included Clarissa Phillips from Jacobs, Kate Williams from FrontierSI, Todd Lankford from Indara and Yazid Ninsalam from McGregor Coxall.

July 10, 202329 min

Episode 13: It started with data-wrangling

After a decade in private practice and a decade of imagining better ways for people to work with data together, Lucy Booth went from planner to tech entrepreneur. But as we share in this episode, the planning instincts of a planner are hard wired, and the relentless pursuit of 'solutioning' always remains.

June 24, 202323 min

Episode 12: The business of data, for government-led planning

In this episode of the show we explore yet another PlanTech journey, this time from the New South Wales Government. We are joined by James Strutt from the Department of Planning and Environment, who shares the evolution of Land iQ - one of the governments core platforms enabling a range of capabilities that staff can leverage to optimise asset planning processes. James shares views as they related to the business case, use cases and potential scale-up opportunities of the tool.

June 7, 20231 hr 0 min

Episode 11: The world of place analytics

So, when it comes to measuring place – where are we at? In this webinar we work through answering a range of questions, such as what are the fundamental attributes of place analytics? We also discuss how place data gets analysed, and what can be done with it. The panel exploring this topic included Adam O’Connor from Countculture, James Peet from ENE.HUB, Lucinda Hartley from Neighbourlytics, and Norion Ubechel from Place Intelligence.