Two of the best names in urban planning took out high honours at a national awards night held in Perth recently, and both are from Griffith University.
Dr Tony Matthews from Griffith’s Cities Research Institute accepted the award for Cutting Edge Research and Teaching for his role in the popular radio show and podcast The Urban Squeeze, and graduate Thomas Gardiner won the prestigious Young Planner of the Year award at the Planning Institute of Australia’s (PIA) National Awards for Planning Excellence on May 9.
The Urban Squeeze accolade follows hot on the heels of the podcast’s wins last November at the PIA Queensland event where it also won the Cutting Edge Research and Teaching gong as well as the Overall Award for Planning Excellence.
The podcast’s two seasons of 28 episodes featured Dr Matthews and former Griffith academic Professor Jason Byrne, and were broadcast live on Matt Webber’s ABC Drive show
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