Episode 70: Peter Edwards - The Creative City

17 Feb

Peter Edwards an award-winning Architect, an accomplished and recognised urbanist and a leading figure in Queensland’s urban design community. He brings over 30 years of experience in architecture and urban design to provide leadership, design expertise and strategic thinking to the major projects shaping our nation’s cities.

He is regularly sought as a design leader, city making expert, public speaker, and is a consistent advocate for better cities through design.

Here are some juicy quotes from Peter Edwards that you don't want to miss.

[11:30] - “It's very hard to come in, and to be a poet, you have to come in and be a pragmatist. And one's journey to poetry is through pragmatics.”

[12:33] - “The creative act is being able to look and see the golden thread that needs to be pulled and to pull all of those things together into a unifying and compelling idea that will carry the day.”

[17:18] - “You're building a huge kind of foundation of advocacy for what might be the ultimate design. “

[20:47] - “I think of simply looking at the world, and seeing an underlying beauty that has attracted you that would like you to somehow engage with more.”

[24:59] - “There are cities that often made of accidents rather than made of purpose for maneuvers.”

[28:30] - “City making is a really fundamentally basic thing that we do every day. If you get into Bondi in Sydney, you will see a city made and unmade every day.”

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Peter Edwards - Special Guest