The Value of Loveable Infrastructure

From knowing where the popular coffee shop is, to understanding how communities use and value spaces, GHD’s Loveable Framework embraces and celebrates the intangible elements that give our cities character – shifting the paradigm of infrastructure from ‘liveable’ to ‘Loveable’.

This enables us to take a lived experience approach to transport planning – looking beyond a piece of infrastructure’s primary purpose to looking at the urban fabric the investment can support. A bus station is not just a bus station, it’s a commercial precinct, gateway or place for meeting.

GHD has developed the Loveable Framework that incorporates how the community feel about the environment, their sense of connection to the built form, the people, their unique experiences and the living and inherited history of this place into the visioning and optioneering for a developed design. This approach is enabling us to measure the social outcomes of a project demonstrating that focusing on what the community values can have significant economic returns.

Presenter: Michala Lander

Michala Lander is an experienced strategic planner and specialises in the planning and development of social and community infrastructure. She is passionate about working with the community and stakeholders to design and develop places that work for them.

Michala and her team developed the Loveable Cities Framework, which
is an approach to urbanisation that puts people at the centre of Urban
Planning. This framework was developed as part of the Social Infrastructure
Strategy for the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, it is now being developed across
the globe to establish its applicability across different scales of projects
and cultural contexts.

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