Speaker Spotlight: Craig Czarny

While the principles of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) have been adopted globally, its execution has often been hampered by a poor understanding of human movement patterns and behaviour.

A new regime of TOD practice has been developed, which seeks to marry the principles of TOD with a renewed interested in Pedestrian Oriented Design (POD), with a focus on delivery of successful functional ‘people places’.

A TOD-POD approach- as found in recent case studies undertaken for City Governments (and the World Bank) in Indonesia, Vietnam and China, allows for more harmonious integration of sometime bold redevelopment programmes.

This approach also assures a critical human dimension- allowing major redevelopment initiatives to contribute tangible social, economic and environmental benefits to surrounding neighbourhoods.

Craig Czarny is a Director at Hansen Partnership, one of Australia’s leading multi-disciplinary consultancies servicing projects across Australia and the Pacific region. He has more than 27 years’ experience across design practice and research with an outstanding array of local and international award winning projects undertaken for the public and private sector and international agencies such as the UNWTO and World Bank. Join him at the iCities Conference in April 2016. He will be speaking on The POD (Pedestrian Oriented Design) Revolution: Enabling Genuine Urban Regeneration through a New Approach to Transit Oriented Development which Prioritises Walkability and the Public Sphere.

About Craig Czarny