From refuse to re-use.

Bates Smart Managing Director Philip Vivian on Sydney’s laneways – once abandoned to cars and service trucks, now being reclaimed as some of the city’s most vital pedestrian spaces. The challenge, as Philip puts it: how do we take back the city and reclaim these spaces for people? It’s a question that drives how we think about laneway integration across our projects, and car-free, human-scaled environments are at the heart of it. Great to see this conversation in the wider city, thanks to Julie Power at The Sydney Morning Herald.

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