Tactical urbanism Archives - PacificEdge
My work in local government—a few thoughts
August 1, 2012 | Russ GraysonLOCAL GOVERNMENT—it’s the level of government closest to the people in Australia and it’s this situation that gives it its reputation. And that’s quite a variable reputation that spans the distance from appreciation to criticisms of excessive bureaucracy.
A next-to-last project: a new community garden for Woolloomooloo
August 1, 2012 | Russ GraysonONE OF MY FINAL PROJECTS before finishing my tour as the City of Sydney’s community garden coordinator was to get the Bourke Street Park Community Garden started in Wooloomooloo. This will be Woolloomooloo’s second community garden, the first one, in Sydney Place, now being in full use.
Social planning comes first in community garden design
August 1, 2012 | Russ GraysonIT’S A COMMON BELIEF among people setting out to start a community garden that the first step is to find land, do a site analysis, do a design, build and start growing. Were it only so simple.
Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
June 6, 2012 | Russ Grayson | One CommentThis story was also on the website of the 3-Council Ecofootprint Program
Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
June 6, 2012 | Russ GraysonIT WAS A RIPPING TIMEon the footpath garden adjacent to Barrett house in Randwick as we ripped out an ornamental monoculture to make way for an edible polyculture.
Wet weather and hot soup at Sydney network MeetUP
June 5, 2012 | Russ GraysonRAIN DID NOT DETER THEM as they came from Camden, Paddington, Randwick, Bundeena, the Willoughby community gardens and the Permaculture Interpretive Garden in Randwick.
Footpath planter gardens turn dull Waterloo space into colourful and productive place
March 25, 2012 | Russ GraysonIT COMBINED ELEMENTS of learning and doing, social benefit and placemaking. And it would go on the footpath in Waterloo.
Something new and edible is coming to Woolloomooloo
March 24, 2012 | Russ GraysonIT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING OF AN ADVENTURE working with a new community garden group on their first project. You never know what to expect—so it’s best to expect nothing at all and that way you will be pleasantly surprised when things go well.
Green Square Growers get going at The Tote
March 24, 2012 | Russ GraysonTHESE URBAN FOOD ENTHUSIASTS call themselves Green Square Growers, and they’re a new group living adjacent to the brownfields that will soon house an additional 20,000 people in what s going to be a major urban renewal. Some live in Victoria Park, a large cluster of medium density apartments that offers a foretaste of what will appear in Green Square.
Ted Trainer’s new book – a rough road map
November 30, 2011 | Russ GraysonI haven’t seen a copy of Ted’s new book yet, so the comments that follow are made in ignorance of the context set by it. My comments refer only to the chapters that Ted has circulated to publicise the publication. You will find this at the end of this review.
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