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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Bill Chandler: A skeptical optimist who saw good urban design as critical to combatting the climate crisis
Description: Bill Chandler (pictured) was a beautiful gentleman who attracted, people of similar ilk and it was along with a few others that in 1986 he set up the Melbourne-based Urban Design Forum (UDF).
The group had serious intent in ensuring Australia was creating towns and cities focussing on people rather than machines. Yet, it went about its work in an understated and informal manner.
Bill was vitally implicated in major projects throughout Melbourne and never stepped back from the UDF's guiding philosophy that people rather than machines needed to be given priority at every stage of...