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    {making places}

    Sos of Uba Rvalsao an publication

    winter2009

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    WELCOME TO THE

    NEW LOOK URBANO

    Place making is being embraced by the public andprvate ectr r t rle n ecnmcally and cally

    ucceul develpment arund the wrld.Place making is the art o combining winning in-

    gredients to turn a block of land into a destination thatenlivens your senses, makes you smile and entices youto linger a little longer. Whether its a park, a publicsquare or a street, a good place attracts people likemth t a ame.

    In ur alute t th new wrld urban develp-ment,Urbano examne the cty wth a place makereye. International place making expert Fred Kent re-cently vted Perth and hare h de a wth Urbano.He envage a chan detnatn lnked acr thecity, to inject life and prosperity that will se e Perth riseabve the current ecnmc uncertanty.

    One the place et t tar n the cty uture the Perth Cultural Centre. A new vn r the rede-

    velpment the Cultural Centre n the wrk, andUrbano gan a unque nght nt th prce rmthree key player.

    A ene place nt nly cme rm the tangbledestinations that make up a city, it also comes romthe ntangble mage the cty cnjure up. Tee twace place eed each ther and we al takea lk at the Perth brand and hw th develpngalngde ur phycal nratructure.

    By its very nature place making is a partnership a joint efort between community, industry andgovernment. So as you read through these pagesremember, n matter wh yu are, yu have a rle tplay in moulding uture Perth. Perth is your place embrace t!

    The magazines new design is a refection o a

    resh approach to urban development in Perth.

    Urbano publhed by EPRA

    Edtr: Purple Cmmuncatn

    Art Drectn and Degn: Blck (BlckBrandng.cm)

    Sme the vew expreed n th magazne are

    pernal and may nt necearly be the EPRA andn repnblty accepted r the vew r ther

    ubequent eect.

    Urbano prnted n 100% recycled, Autralan-made

    paper.Te manuacturng the paper cmpled wth

    envrnmental tandard iso 14001.Pleae recycle.

    2 SNippETS

    4 WHATS iN A BRANd

    Hw huld Perth be

    preentng tel t thewrld and why de t

    matter? We meet ne

    the wrld remt

    authrte n natn

    brandng.

    6 pERTH CULTURAL CENTRE

    A CAST Of STARS REAdy

    TO SHiNE

    Perth cultural heart

    abut t g thrugh

    t mt gnfcant

    revamp.We lk at hw

    the Centre can becme

    a cultural mecca n

    the cty.

    10 THE pLACE MAKER

    We talk t nternatnal

    place makng expert

    Fred Kent abut hw

    t create cte that

    attract peple.

    15 MAKiNg THEiR MARK

    We prfle me

    Perth mt amazng

    creatve park.

    20 THEURBANiTE fiLE

    Eghty-three year-ld

    Bll Chew tell what

    t wa lke grwng up

    Chnee n Nrthbrdge

    hal a century ag.

    CONTENTS

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    Entrepreneurial animal lover Richard Gilroy

    walked away rom a 30 year career in

    engineering six months ago to fll a hole in

    Perths growing pet care market. Today, his

    homemade organic dog treats are being

    shipped around the country and even as ar

    away as Saudi Arabia.

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    Markets @ Perth Cultural Centre. I love what

    I am doing and the small scale, personalised

    market environment is perect or my

    product, Richard says. The response so ar

    has been antastic and the dogs are my best

    marketers. Im sure that i dogs got pocket

    money, theyd spend it at Falka Gs!

    The Markets @ Perth Cultural Centre

    operate 10am5pm weekends and are

    located at the corner o Beauort and James

    Streets, opposite the entrance to the WA

    Museum. Find out more at

    www.theperthmarkets.com.au

    Just when you thought youd

    mastered social media by

    joining Facebook, a new online

    phenomenon is sweeping the

    world. In March 2009, a Nielsen.

    com blog ranked Twitter as

    the astest growing site in

    the Member Communities

    category, with a massive growth

    rate o 1382%.

    Tweets are text-based

    posts o up to 140 characters in

    length. Updates are displayed

    on the users profle page and

    delivered to other users who

    have signed up to receive the

    Some o the early adopter

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    Tourism Western Australia, AB

    News Perth, Transperth, Scitec

    and the Art Gallery o WA. An

    with the likes o Britney Spear

    to Kevin Rudd embracing the

    technology, we may soon see

    some o our own Perthonalit

    twittering away.

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    The hstory o CaveAustralian musician, songwriter and author Nick Caveis now the subject o his own exhibition hosted by theWestern Australian Museum in the Perth CulturalCentre rom 23 May to 19 July 2009.

    Go behind the music and into Nicks imagination andthe sources o his unique vision through original lyrics,notebooks, artwork, photography and books. Tere willalso be objects rom the musicians own library andofce, and rare and previously unavailable video anddocumentary ootage.

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    In these dicult economic times, can we aford to invest

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    me Bill Chiew

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    vesHis sports baseball, cricket and ootball

    As a young Chinese boy growing up inNorthbridge, 83-yer-old Bill Chieremembers it as a very dierent place.

    Where there re no resturntsnd brs, there ere mrket grdensand stables, and this spelt opportunity

    or Bills ather imothy, who in 1898 had movedto Perth in search o work.

    At bout 16-yers-old, nd on his on, myather moved to Perth rom China to start a newlie, Bill said.

    im joined ht s then groing PerthChinese community, which consisted of about 840predominately single men. Determined to make ago o it, and despite the looming inuence o theGret Depression, im set up his on businessin the 1930s.

    Trading as J & S Chiew Produce Merchants, the

    store thrived, and became a landmark at 99 101James Street or more than 40 years.

    Its stock in trade was supplying goods or themrket grdens nd stbles littered throughoutthe area. Its speciality items included its amousmanure especially shipped in rom Melbourne.

    Some o Bills erliest childhood memorieswere helping out at the amily store afer schoolin the 1930s.

    From here, he itnessed smll, tight-knitnd enterprising Chinese community duringthose days.

    Tere werent a lot o Chinese people mostorked in the mrket grdens ll dy nd onlycame in at night, he said.

    Tey were happy, but worked hard and didntseem to have much so cial lie, Bill said.

    Bill remembers the Chung Wh Associ-tion right across the road rom his athers store.Formed in 1909, Chung Wh s Perths frstethnic ssocition, nd plyed pivotl role inostering the socil nd culturl needs o wasChinese residents.

    Tis yer, Chung Wh mrks its 100 yer n-niversry. Bills mily hs n eqully long con-nection, strting ith his mternl grndther,Jmes Lee Wood ho s ounding member,and continuing with the active involvement todayo he and wie Beryl.

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    There werent a lot o Chnese people most worked n the market gardens allday and only came n at nght.

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