Host Lukas Petridis explores what city resilience looks like in practice by exploring case studies in Melbourne and across the world. Supported by the City of Melbourne and the University of Melbourne.
Credits:
Host Lukas Petridis, Bachelor of Environments and Society student at RMIT.
City Resilience in Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.
Listen to City Resilience episodes below or subscribe on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
S1E1 Sarah Bell
Show guest:
Professor Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the first episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Sarah’s research addresses urban resilience and community engagement infrastructure, drawing on the social sciences to better understand how people, nature and technologies interact to create urban systems.
In this episode, Sarah and Lukas discusses the biggest actors in city resilience for the city of Melbourne, Sarah’s experience in London, what can be learnt from cities internationally and whether or not Melbourne is on a good trajectory with its work regarding city resilience.
Listen to the episode here.
S1E2 Dr. Gary Veale
Show guest:
Dr Gary Veale, Executive director of Centre for Sustainability at Melbourne Business School, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the second episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast.
In this episode, the past teacher, biologist and KPMG Director discusses whether the media’s discourse towards climate change and city resilience is justified, the differences between Sydney and Melbourne in terms of green spaces in the city and the characteristics that make a good leader.
Listen to the episode here.
S1E3 Farema Yazdi
Show guest:
Farema Yazdi, a volunteer co-director at Climates, a non-for-profit organisation, as well as senior policy officer at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the third episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Farema’s work focuses on climate change policy – specifically within the climate science team; adaptation and risk branch – working towards building Victoria’s resilience to climate change.
In this episode, Farema and Lukas discusses the role of colonialism and injustice in the climate crisis, why community is at the height of resilience and why we need to we need to empower locally conceptualised solutions and initiatives implemented by the community. The pair also discuss the importance of multi-functional actions regarding climate policies.
Listen to the episode here.
S1E4 Lisa Gibbs
Show guest:
Lisa Gibbs, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Unit in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Academic Lead for Community Resilience and Public Health in the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the fourth episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Lisa’s research focuses on disaster recovery and resilience particularly relating to the interplay between individual and community level outcomes.
In this episode, Lisa and Lukas discuss how communities fair after the experience of a disaster, the cognitive impact of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires on primary school children, how Victoria faired during the coronavirus compared to the rest of the world and whether or not the community of Melbourne is prepared for the affects of climate change and what it’ll have on the built environment that is the city?
Listen to the episode here.
S1E5 Michele Acuto
Show guest:
Michele Acuto, Director for the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis, in the fifth episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast.
In this episode, Michele and Lukas discusses working with the City of Melbourne on the Night Time economy, things Michele wished he knew as a student that he now knows as a professor, Michele’s book ‘How To Build A Global City’ and the contemporary issue of Urban heat islands.
Listen to the episode here.