As Director of Design & Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne with nearly 40 years experience as a practising architect and urban designer, Rob has produced a large number of strategic urban design solutions and projects in addition to design-research based urban projects and strategies, and has attracted over 100 state and national awards for excellence. A champion of both the arts and environmental sustainability he has worked to ensure that good urban design is established as a platform for city development into the 21st Century. ------------------- TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day live, over 700 in the theatre and the rest via big screen simulcast in The Forum. Thousands more watched the lives webstream. It was a grand day. About TEDx, x = independently organised event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organised events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organised TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organised.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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1. Wow needed this for school !!
2. such an interesting video!
3. no thanks. i'm not an ant. And did he just say to put all the old people in boxes? an ant pile at 17:01
4. Unfortunately Australia's population will never understand this. Instead we will keep building new sprawling estates and freeways...
   Apparently that is what people want? Living a two 2 hour drive from work, 30 minute drive from school and 20 minute drive from the closest shopping center. Living in a poorly designed house, far too large and expensive to cool/heat. No footpaths, no street lights, underutilized parks, no community, no main street, no anything. Just people living in their giant McMansions, getting in their car, parking in an underground car park, going to work, getting back in the car, going home and repeat.
   
   Id take the shoe box apartment in the city any day of the week.
5. Why 4-floor buildings? Why not 9-floor or 25-floor buldings if you say that low buildings is bad? I think you need to build 1-floor buldings if you say that 1-floor buildings is bad and you want to run away from it. You laught at the tall buildings and tell that 1-floor cities are the sustainable future. I do not get a fuck of your talk. You is an idiot.
6. Malmö is where in Sweden you should live if you want low income.
7. Rob Adams, expensive and extravagant. "Melbourne Turning Basin" costing Millions of dollars that boats can not access. He capitulated to move Museum out of city centre compromising Melbourne's World Heritage site and diminished Melbourne's appeal to children. He proposed to build balconies over Victorian heritage verandas in Lygon Street. A bridge half completed. Every project paid top dollar. Swanston Street costing 100 of Millons of dollars does not work. Bicycle paths engineering congestion
8. Great video!
9. I saw your video and found the information quite helpful, the thing you told about the infrastructure really impressed me as it was of the top quality.
10. @jdtbruck I think you have to do both with Sydney. Follow the principles Rob's outlined, but also increase transport services.
11. favourite talk of the day! I wonder what we could do with Sydney? Unfortunately Sydney doesn't have that nice grid-like structure that he refers to. Our major highways are already completely clogged, so the issue of increasing population might be less of a location problem but a transport problem? More buses, more train infrastructure...