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Planning Xchange
by Jess Noonan & Peter Jewell
Planning Xchange is an interview series of built environment professionals doing interesting work beyond the ordinary. Guests include town planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, academics, historians, CEO's (and much much more!). Featuring podcast hosts Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell.
Episodes
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PlanningxChange 146: Stefanos Polyzoides - Rebuilding Confidence: The Future of Post-Industrial Cities
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell are joined by Stefanos Polyzoides, Professor of Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Stefanos is also one of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and has spent much of his...
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PlanningxChange 145: Robyn Annear on Cities, Memory and the Art of Noticing
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell speak with historian and writer Robyn Annear about cities, memory and the art of noticing. Robyn has written extensively about Melbourne, lost places, everyday life, archival fragments and the small details that open up larger...
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PlanningxChange 144: Waste, Recovery and the City with Maree Marshall
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell speak with Maree Marshall from Urbis about waste, resource recovery and the city. Maree has worked in the waste and resource recovery sector for more than 25 years, advising councils, government agencies and designers on how waste...
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PlanningxChange 143: Place and Longevity: Reflections with Marcus Pearce
Living Better for Longer: Blue Zones, Longevity and the Places We Create Guest: Marcus Pearce What do a small Greek island, a mountain village in Sardinia, and a Californian faith-based community have in common? They are among the world's famous Blue Zones - places where people routinely live…
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PlanningxChange 142: Turning Litter into Fun - Spogomi
This episode explores spogomi, the Japanese-born idea that reimagines litter collection as a competitive, team-based sport, transforming one of the least appealing aspects of urban life into something energetic, social, and unexpectedly joyful. We are joined by Masanori (Max) Tamazawa and…
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PlanningxChange 141 - Jared Jones, Californian Housing Producer
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell are joined by Jared Jones, founder of Middle Housing Partners (https://middlehousingpartners.com) in California, to explore the growing challenge of delivering housing within established neighbourhoods. The conversation begins with…
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PlanningxChange 140: Future directions and current thoughts for PX
In this episode Jess and Pete talk about whats on their minds and potential future interviews. Episode released 28 February 2026.
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PlanningxChange 139: Driverless Cars: What Do They Mean for Cities and Society?
Driverless and autonomous vehicles are moving steadily from concept to reality, raising important questions for cities, streets and planning systems. While the technology is often framed as a transport or engineering issue, its impacts are likely to be felt far more broadly — shaping travel...
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PlanningxChange 138: Agritourism, Regulation and Risk: Insights from Old Mission with Mary Reilly
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess and Peter speak with Mary Reilly, a planner and educator with deep experience in rural land-use issues. Mary helps us unpack the widely discussed Old Mission case from Michigan - a dispute between wineries and a township over land-use controls that…
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PlanningxChange 137: Architecture in Vietnam with Olivier Souquet (DE-SO Asia)
In this episode, PlanningxChange travels to Vietnam to speak with Olivier Souquet, French architect and co-founder of DE-SO Asia, a Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)-based design studio renowned for projects that weave together climate, culture, and poetic sensibility. Since establishing DE-SO Asia in...
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PlanningxChange 136: Promoting Retirement Living with Daniel Gannon
In this episode of PlanningxChange, Jess and Peter speak with Daniel Gannon, Executive Director of the Retirement Living Council of Australia. Daniel brings nearly two decades of experience across advocacy, public policy, and media, including eight years leading the Property Council in South...
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PlanningxChange 135: Stephen Turner on the Japanese Railway System
In this episode of Planningxchange, Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell are joined by Stephen Turner, founder of TS Japan Rail a well respected commentator on Japanese rail travel. Stephen has lived in Japan since the early 1990s and has featured on NHK World's Japan Railway Journal and Japanology Plus....
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PlanningxChange 134: Graffiti, Governance and the City - Dr Cameron McAuliffe
In this episode of PlanningXchange (PX135), we sit down with Dr Cameron McAuliffe, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography & Urban Studies at Western Sydney University. Cameron has written widely on the cultural politics of graffiti and street art, and has advised public authorities on how cities can...
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PlanningxChange 133: Five Decades in City Planning: A Conversation with Peter O'Leary
In this episode of PlanningXchange, we speak with Peter O'Leary, whose planning career spans an impressive five decades. Peter began his journey in the mid-1970s as a cadet in local government, rising through the ranks to senior management. He later moved into the private sector before serving…
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PlanningxChange 132: How AI Is Transforming City Planning - with Scott Matheson
In this episode of PlanningXchange, we speak with Scott Matheson, Head of Planning at MyLot, an Australian AI technology company focused on simplifying the planning process for councils and communities. With a background in statutory planning across local government, consultancies, and the...
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PlanningxChange 131: Alfonso Morales + Edna Ely-Ledesma: Public Markets
In this episode of PlanningXchange, we speak with Professor Alfonso Morales and Edna Ely-Ledesma of the University of Wisconsin-Madson about the unique and often overlooked role of public markets in shaping vibrant, inclusive urban environments. Drawing on their research and on-the-ground...
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PlanningxChange 130 - Inside the Mind of a Developer: A Conversation with Max Shifman
In PX130 our guest is Max Shifman, Chief Executive Officer of Intrapac Property, one of Australia's most respected private developers. Max brings a wealth of experience to the discussion, having worked across master-planned communities, regional housing projects, and complex urban redevelopments...
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PlanningxChange 129: Charter Cities in the Developing World with Jeffrey Mason
In PX129 our guest is Jeffrey Mason of the Charter Cities Institute. Jeffrey joined CCI as a Researcher in 2019. His research interests include urban economics, structural transformation, special economic zones, and technology ecosystems. He has worked on policy advisory projects in Nigeria,...
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PlanningxChange 128: Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (author Jorge Almazan)
In PX128 our guest is architect and author Jorge Almazan. Jorge is a Tokyo-based architect and associate professor at Keio University. He holds a degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His practice focuses on ecologically...
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PlanningxChange 127: Derham Groves - Sherlock Holmes and good City Making etc
In PX127 our guest is architect, former academic and author Dr Derham Groves. He studied architecture at Deakin University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and art history at the University of Minnesota. He taught architecture at RMIT from 1985 to 1997 and the University of…
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PlanningxChange 126: Key to the City - How Zoning Shapes Our World: Sara Bronin
Our guest is Sara Bronin a Mexican-American architect and attorney whose interdisciplinary research focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She is the author of Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and...
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PlanningxChange Episode 125 - PX turns 10, reflections and an Ai Review
In this episode, Jess and Pete reflect on the tenth anniversary of the PlanningxChange podcast. This discussion occurs before an Ai review of the planningxchange podcast series. A rather indulgent episode to mark the anniversary! For podcast extra / culture corner, Jess recommends making pizzas…
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PlanningxChange 124: Public Toilets with Katherine Webber
Katherine is a social planning practitioner with over 14 years' experience working for a range of government and non-government organisations in Australia and the Pacific. Katherine has considerable experience in developing and implementing community plans, programs and policy to improve social...
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PlanningxChange 123: Build Baby Build, with author Bryan Caplan
In PX123 our guest is Bryan Caplan. Bryan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. We interview him about his ground breaking graphic novel 'Build, Baby, Build - The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation'. The book is so described: 'In…
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PlanningxChange 122: Rafael Mangual - Crime + City Planning
In PX122 our guest is Rafael Mangual a distinguished writer and researcher on crime issues in cities and regions. He is the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI), a contributing editor of City Journal, and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice. His first book, Criminal...
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PlanningxChange 121: Calvin Po - new ways of thinking and doing
In PX121 our guest is Calvin Po (https://www.calvinpo.com). Calvin Po is a strategic designer at Dark Matter Labs, co-leading the Radicle Civics portfolio, where he explores institutional and governance systems as sites of design. He has led projects with the Scottish Government's Land Commission...
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PlanningxChange 120: Innovative planning and university programs in Japan (Tokyo U)
In PX120 our guest is Assistant Professor Akane Bessho, Ph.D of the Housing and Urban Analysis Laboratory, Department of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Information about Akane's work is at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Akane-Bessho-2 and her website is: https://www.akanebessho.com...
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PlanningxChange 119: Kylie Legge of Place Score
In PX119 our guests is Kylie Legge of Place Score (https://www.placescore.org/about-place-score/). Kylie is a leading voice in placemaking, an architecture graduate, planner, place maker, author, facilitator, curator and entrepreneur. She is founding Director of Place Partners, a…
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PlanningxChange 118: YIMBY Melbourne: Build, Baby, Build
In PX118 our guests are Jonathan O'Brien and Jonathan Nolan of YIMBY Melbourne. Details of YIMBY Melbourne are at https://www.yimby.melbourne YIMBY Melbourne seeks a 'People-led' 'Grassroots' 'For Housing Abundance.' The YIMBY website states: 'A better Melbourne is possible. A Melbourne that is...
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PlanningxChange 117: Rob Parker - Trilith - New Urbanism 2.0++
In PX117 our guest is Rob Parker, President of Trilith Development, LLC. Rob oversees with a development team the continued growth of the Trilith Township and Film Studios. Trilith is located on the edge of Altana in Fayette County, Georgia. Trilith is in the advance guard of new urbanism...
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PlanningxChange 116: Stephen Rowley - author, planning professional, academic and astute commentator.
In PX116 our guest is Stephen Rowley. Stephen is the author of two books, 'Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood's Ideal Communities' and 'The Victorian Planning System: Practice, Problems and Prospects'. In February 2022 he was made of a Fellow of the Planning Institute of…
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PlanningxChange 115: Liz Mackevicius, organisational coach
In PX115 our guest is Liz Mackevicius. Liz is an urban planner who has taken a new role as an organisational coach for those in the built environment industry. She will be leading the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) program 'Pathway to Lead'. Information about the program, and the link to...
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PlanningxChange 114: Anna Lowder talks New Urbanism including Hampstead
In PX114, our interview guest is Anna Lowder, a co-founder and director of Hampstead, a New Urbanist community in Montgomery, Alabama, inspired by her experiences while living in London before returning to Montgomery. Established in 2008, the 416-acre master-planned residential and mixed-use...
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PlanningxExchange 113: Air taxis (spinners) & Vertiports with Clem Newton-Brown
Episode PX113 is all about Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) aircraft, these are typically electric or hybrid powered, air taxis and the like. They have appeared in various science fiction films such as Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2049 (nicknamed 'spinners'). They will soon be appearing above...
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PlanningxChange 112: Converting office buildings into residential with Jessica Lee of FK Architects
In PX112, our interview guest is Jessica Lee, a principal architect at Fender Katsalidis Architects (https://fkaustralia.com). Jessica discusses the 'Alba' project, the conversion of a 1970's former office building into 150 rooms of age appropriate housing (retirement accommodation and aged…
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PlanningxChange 111: Jesse Suskin - Wing Aviation (drone delivery)
In PX111, our interview guest is Jesse Suskin, Head of Government Relations & Public Policy at Wing Aviation (https://wing.com). We talk all things drone delivery particularly the experience learnt in Logan in Queensland, Australia where there has been extensive delivery operations over a lengthy...
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PlanningxChange 110: Professor Tim Parkin - The Romans and their cities
In PX110, our interview guest is Professor Tim Parkin, we talk all things Roman particularly their city life. Tim Parkin joined the Classics and Archaeology department at the University of Melbourne in 2018 as the inaugural Elizabeth and James Tatoulis Chair in Classics. Before this he had spent...
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PlanningxChange 109: Doug Tallamy - Home Grown National Park - native species over lawn
In PX109, our interview guest is Professor Douglas (Doug) Tallamy, the author of many nature books and co - founder along with Michelle Alfandari of Homegrown National Park (https://homegrownnationalpark.org). Homegrown National Parks is a grassroots call - to - action to regenerate biodiversity...
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PlanningxChange 108: Dr Stefan Gruenert - Odyssey House - Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation
In PX108, our interview guest is Dr Stefan Gruenert, the CEO of Odyssey House Victoria. Odyssey House Victoria is a state-wide, specialist treatment organisation dedicated to improving the lives of individuals who experience significant or long-term problems from alcohol and other drug use.…
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PlanningxChange 107 Kate Hardwick: shining bright
In PX107, our interview guest is Kate Hardwick an exceptional planning professional originally from Australia who now works in South East Asia. Kate takes the listener on a fascinating journey describing her professional career. Along the way she offers tips to those starting out and also to…
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PlanningxChange 106: James Vincent - Smart Cities Technology
In PX106, our interview guest is James Vincent who is the CTO at NCS NEXT Australia, a global digital, data and cloud services consultancy (https://www.ncs.co/en-au/next/). James is a senior people leader with 25 years' commercial IT experience and an established authority in large-scale…
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PlanningxChange 105: Torie Brown - Student accommodation
In PX105, our interview guest is Torie Brown, Executive Director of the Student Accommodation Council. The Council was formed in 2022 by the Property Council to give a voice to the critically important purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector which provides homes for over 76,500 students...
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PlanningxChange 104: Vanessa Schernickau - CEO of the Geelong Regional Library Corporation
In PX104, our interview guest is Vanessa Schernickau, the Chief Executive Officer of the Geelong Regional Library Corporation (GRLC). The GRLC provides library and information services to residents and visitors across the Geelong region on behalf of five local government councils. The network...
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PX103: Tim Jackson - On Leadership, local government and volunteering
In PX103, our interview subject is Tim Jackson, a +40 year veteran of local government. Tim recently retired for a second time from the paid workforce after completing his four year role as the State Government appointed Administrator at the District of Council of Coober Pedy in South Australia…
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PlanningxChange 102: Dr James Lesh (urban historian and author)
In this episode, PlanningxChange delves into the history of heritage conservation in Australia. James Lesh is an urban historian specialising in heritage conservation. He is interested in the potential for history and heritage to enhance cities, places and society. His latest book is Values in...
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PlanningxChange 101: All about Canberra (Australia's national capital)
In PX101 our guests are Natalia Weglarz and Peter Johns. Natalia is a planner at the Canberra office of WSP (www.wsp.com). She has been in Canberra for eight years, prior to that she was in Sydney and the UK. Peter Johns has lived in Canberra since the mid 1960's and has worked as a planner in...
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PlanningxChange 100: Live free
To celebrate our 100th episode we re-interview four of our previous guests. We ask them about their experiences with the podcast and what has happened in their professional sphere since their earlier interview. To begin with, Jess has a brief introduction where she explains the origins of PX and...
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PlanningxChange 99: Alex Fenech (Landscape architect - Florida, USA)
In PlanningxChange episode 99 our guest is Alex Fenech, a landscape architect based in Florida. At the time we recorded the interview Alex was a Vice President at EDSA (https://www.edsaplan.com) one of America's leading landscape and urban design firms. Alex is the past President of ALSA Florida...
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PlanningxChange 98: Tim Ellis (magician and promoter of the Melbourne Magic Festival)
In PlanningxChange episode 98 our guest is Tim Ellis one of the world's leading magicians. Details about Tim are found at https://www.timellismagic.com and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ellis_(magician) What do magic and city planning have in common? The connection to this episode is Tim...
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PlanningxChange 97 with David Beaumont - painter
In PlanningxChange episode 97 our guest is David Beaumont one of Australia's leading landscape and portrait painters. David is based in the historic seaside town of Queenscliff. From there he embarks on various solitary sojourns to the outback to immerse himself in the breadth and depth of the...
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Planning Xchange is an interview series of built environment professionals doing interesting work beyond the ordinary. Guests include town planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, academics, historians, CEO's (and much much more!). Featuring podcast hosts Jess Noonan and Peter Jewell.
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