Professor Sarah Bell, City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne, joins host, Lukas Petridis in the first episode of Season 1 of the City Resilience in Melbourne podcast. Sarah’s research addresses urban resilience and community engagement infrastructure, drawing on the social sciences to better understand how people, nature and technologies interact to create urban systems.
In this episode, Sarah and Lukas discusses the biggest actors in city resilience for the city of Melbourne, Sarah’s experience in London, what can be learnt from cities internationally and whether or not Melbourne is on a good trajectory with its work regarding city resilience.
City Resilience in Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which this podcast was produced, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to Elders past and present.