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Human Capital Not Just a Gender Issue 10 sept-oct 2012 CHamPIOnIng CHangE Learning from research OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES Gender equity in 2012 WORK/LIFE Finding the balance maKIng IT WORK Perspectives from across the profession Human capital Not just a gender issue 10. Editor Laura Wise [email protected] Editorial Committee Chair Contents Joe Agius [email protected] President’s message art direction and design 02 Jamie Carroll and Ersen Sen leadinghand.com.au Letter to the editor Copy Editor 03 SPECIFYAWS.COM.AU Monique Pasilow managing Editor Roslyn Irons On the cover News and views from around the Chapter ONLINE RESOURCE FOR ARCHITECTS & SPECIFIERS The last edition of Architecture Bulletin 04 advertising dedicated to gender was December 1997 [email protected] (below). 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A solution might begin by Architecture Awards presentation as winners, discussion paper for the NSW long-term I don’t think so. persuading the authorities to install entrants, jury members and organisers. It was a transport master plan, released early this year, Rose and McPherson, “Is Newcastle off track” additional at-grade crossings to provide great night for our Institute and for specifically acknowledged the need for land (Architecture Bulletin, May/June 2012), made access through to Honeysuckle, to architecture. In addition to the fantastic media use, transport and infrastructure planning to assertions in regard to transport and landscape the corridor, and to replace heavy coverage, including a four-page colour work together. This is another major step revitalising Newcastle’s CBD. I am obliged to stanchions with light catenaries. Let us see supplement in a major metropolitan towards a more coherent long-term planning comment. the benefits of a frequent commuter rail , newspaper, the Chapter will continue sharing framework, and one the Institute has been The article ignores the existence of the service before we spend a lot of money to get president s the success stories with the community through advocating for some time. Hunter Independent Public Transport Inquiry rid of it. the Architecture on Show talks at local libraries. (HIPTI), sponsored by the Newcastle Herald, HIPTI also found that light rail can message The NSW Planning Review has now Women in architecture of which I am convenor. improve connectivity between old and new, reached a critical point. The NSW Government Instead of focusing on a short 4-kilometre but to be cost effective it has to be part of a has released a green paper combining a report With much to be proud of as our profession spur of rail corridor, HIPTI considered how to new transport spine from the CBD to the “It shouldn’t be from its review panel with other work argues for change in the public interest, it’s integrate Newcastle CBD with the rest of the University (Callaghan) and Wallsend, and a necessary to reaffirm commissioned by the Minister for Planning and sobering to remind ourselves, in this issue, of city. Because of its location on a peninsula, prospective high-speed-rail station in the the need to retain Infrastructure Brad Hazzard. On first review, the gender gap that persists in architecture. Newcastle CBD will never be central to the city vicinity of Cameron Park. the document promises to deliver a new As in other fields of human endeavour, but it can be integrated with it. The divide between the new and the old more of the highly planning system based on design thinking and men and women bring different perspectives The key to CBD revitalisation is to make it CBD has been created by architects, skilled and awarded strategic planning processes that our Institute to the work they do. Regrettably, we still easy for customers and employees to planners and their developers in concert. has been advocating for many years. operate in a world conditioned to some extent commute [to] and visit, including from The new buildings in Honeysuckle actually female graduates that The NSW Government has recognised that by stereotyped behaviours and role fast-growing Lake Macquarie (195,000 people) turn their backs on the old city. enter our profession, intensive community involvement at the expectations. and Maitland (70,000). A 15-minute rail strategic phase of the planning process will free As Sandra Kaji-O’Grady from the service along both axes combined with express Edward Duc but it is, and we do.” up resources that have, for too long, been University of Sydney points out, women buses to Eastlakes and Newcastle Airport/Port Merewether bogged down in protracted, unnecessarily perform academically at the same level of Stephens is the most cost-efficient way to complex and often adversarial development excellence as their male peers, and in equal achieve this. assessments. Under the new system, if a design numbers; however, this equality does not carry Rose and McPherson’s assertion that proposal complies with the development through their careers in the profession. There removing heavy rail and replacing it with buses controls established in the strategic plan, it will is a continuing trend, documented over many will be a panacea for all CBD ills is, at best, secure approval with minimal intervention years, for women to leave the profession in naive. How can expending $500 million on from councils and other consent authorities. In much greater numbers than men. Women that truncating a transport mode and replacing it some cases, it will be possible to secure a do stay face impediments in managing a work/ with buses in an already congested peninsula ‘deemed approval’ after 10 days. life balance, and in reaching the upper be a solution? This is a major change in the way property echelons of the profession. There are some AECOM’s 2010 Newcastle City Centre and development is planned and delivered in amazing and notable exceptions to this trend, Renewal Transport Management and New South Wales; and, like all changes of but too few.
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