MARK BURRY

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/petra-buried-monument-discovered-jordan

It’s more true than ever that Australia has to make its own luck.

Source: Australia needs to start making its own luck

http://citiscope.org/habitatIII/explainer/2015/06/what-new-urban-agenda

The future of work (and how to prepare for it)
http://www.afr.com/leadership/workplace/ross-dawson-on-the-future-of-work-and-how-to-prepare-for-it-20160525-gp35g1?btis
http://www.afr.com/leadership/workplace/ross-dawson-on-the-future-of-work-and-how-to-prepare-for-it-20160525-gp35g1

http://vavstudio-biennale.com/

Melbourne Metro will bring at least eight years of construction pain before it opens, but is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the inner city for the better,  a leading urban design lecturer says.

Source: Years of pain ahead, but Melbourne Metro will ‘transform inner city for good’

There is “no excuse” for any board in Australia to not know that conventional energy and transport will be obsolete in 15 years.

Source: ‘It’s the end of energy and transportation as we know it’: Tony Seba

http://www.domain.com.au/news/carfree-german-neighbourhood-redefines-suburbia-20160518-goxqfz/

Constricted by its medieval walls, Barcelona was suffocating – until unknown engineer Ildefons Cerdà came up with a radical expansion plan. Rival architects disparaged him, yet his scientific approach changed how we think about cities

Source: Story of cities #13: Barcelona’s unloved planner invents science of ‘urbanisation’ | Cities | The Guardian

http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/city-looks-back-on-a-history-of-melbournes-future-20160511-goshmd.html