216I_Sara Stace, urban shaper, strategic thinker and innovator of cities

What is The Future for Cities?

"What is my role in mitigating the climate impact?"

Are you interested in the donut economy of cities? What do you think about the city as the outside living room? How can we create proper density?

Interview with Sara Stace, urban shaper, strategic thinker and innovator of cities. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, land use and transport planning, donut economics, professional responsibility, and many more.

Sara Stace is a city shaper who thinks about the interplay between cities, land use and urban transport. She is WSP Australia's Regional Executive for Infrastructure Advisory providing advice on urban policy, economic business cases and decarbonisation. Over the past 25 years, Sara has worked for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector. This includes six years as Director of National Urban Policy for Infrastructure Australia and leading walking and cycling strategy at Transport for NSW. She has written and co-authored 20 publications including for the United Nations and Australian Government.

Find out more about Sara and her thinking through these links:

• Sara Stace on LinkedIn;
• @sara_stace as Sara Stace on X;
• Cities at WSP;
• Sara Stace at WSP;
• Sara Stace at Better Streets;
• Doughnut for Urban Development - a manual (2023), by Hill-Hansen, Jensen et al, Danish Architectural Press,
• Amsterdam City Doughnut | DEAL (doughnuteconomics.org)
• Infrastructure Victoria | Victoria's cities must be more compact and….
• Publications – Melbourne's challenges in the face of outer suburb growth (sgsep.com.au)
• Our home choices (infrastructurevictoria.com.au)
• Carbon budgets and new infrastructure development (decarbon8.org.uk)
• Transport Sector Note on Applying the World Bank Group Paris Alignment Assessment Methods
• Postgrowth City Podcast;

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.182 - Interview with Ted Baillieu about professionals to speak up;
• No.194 - Interview with Oliver Stoltz about giving streets back to pedestrians

What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠@WTF4Cities⁠⁠⁠⁠ or on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠wtf4cities.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ website where the ⁠⁠⁠⁠shownotes⁠⁠⁠⁠ are also available.

I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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