Event Recording
Unsolicited Proposal guidelines solicit premeditated, commercial-in-confidence bids to redevelop key urban assets without outside competition. Originating in two high-profile waterfront sites in Australia, the formalized Unsolicited Proposal planning process has spread elsewhere as a ‘fix’ to ‘unlock’ urban spaces for casino development, infrastructure financing and quasi-privatizations, with foreboding signs of its rapid mobility.
Speakers
Professor Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong
Dr Amanda Tattersall, University of Sydney
Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney
Professor Chris Gibson is Professor of Geography at the University of Wollongong, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Dr Amanda Tattersall is a postdoctoral fellow at Sydney University’s Sydney Policy Lab. She co-founded GetUp.org.au and founded the Sydney Alliance. She hosts the ChangeMakers Podcast that tells stories about social change.
Kurt Iveson is Associate Professor of Urban Geography in the School of Geosciences. He is author of Publics and the City, and co-author of Planning and Diversity in the City and the new book EverydayEqualities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. He is currently researching different forms of ‘people power’ in cities around the world with Dr Amanda Tattersall.