When I drove down from Denver to Pueblo, Colorado, I was expecting to see a well-ordered city. The town had a beautifully crafted, evidence based, strategic plan – one of the best I’ve come across. Instead, I confronted a dismal, depressing wasteland, with glaring poverty, homelessness, and gangs on street corners. What went wrong? It was clear to me in the case of Pueblo and numerous cities that empirical, evidence
Martin Hill and his crew are on their way to the 2017 Etchells World Championship, kicking off in San Francisco from 22nd September. Best placed of the Australians, Martin will be sailing his new Etchells ‘Lisa Rose’ (named for his wife) which was bought earlier this year in May and fitted out by crew mate Andrew Palfrey. “We believe it is a rocket ship – stiff, light and beautifully finished”
The popular sports adage “a champion team will always beat a team of champions” is drummed into anyone who has ever played any type of team sport. I remember hearing it bellowed out by numerous coaches, whether they were at the helm of football, cricket, hockey or other sporting teams. The saying proclaims that a team of good players who have played together, bonded and share a common team goal
A recent study by International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that worldwide revenues for the Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) market will increase from US$5.2 billion in 2016 to over US$162 billion in 2020, with the retail industry standing to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of this growth. It is important to highlight at the outset that the potential benefits to the retail sector are not being predicated
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HillPDA’s Leslie Stein, Senior Advisor – Governance and Policy, is soon to release his book on Comparative Urban Land Use Planning, Best Practice published by Sydney University Press. In his book, Leslie took on the massive task of analysing and comparing the planning systems of 80 countries. “By comparing the advantages and pitfalls of different urban planning approaches, and considering their underlying ideologies and assumptions, he proposes a more thoughtful and evidence-based