Emma Appleton (landscape architect) facts for kids
Emma Appleton is an amazing Australian landscape architect and urban designer. This means she helps design and plan how cities and towns look and work, making them great places for people to live. She is currently a Director at the City of Melbourne, which is a big job where she helps decide how the city will grow and change in the future.
What Emma Does
Emma has worked in many important roles in Australia and the UK. She was even named one of the top 50 women in the public sector in Victoria in 2018! Before working for the City of Melbourne, she helped review designs for big projects and planned how to bring old, rundown areas back to life. In London, she helped write guides on how to create successful neighborhoods and masterplans (which are big plans for developing an area).
Emma is also a Churchill Fellow. This is a special scholarship that allowed her to travel and study how old industrial areas in Germany and the Netherlands were being made new again. She studied urban design at Oxford Brookes University, landscape architecture at Queensland University of Technology, and architecture at The University of Queensland. Emma is a registered landscape architect and helps guide design courses at universities in Melbourne.
Her Important Jobs
Emma has held several key positions that helped shape cities:
- Director, Planning and Portfolio Development at Homes Victoria (starting 2021)
- Director City Strategy at City of Melbourne (2016-2021)
- Acting General Manager Strategy, Planning and Climate Change at City of Melbourne (2019-2020)
- Director of the Victorian Design Review Panel at the Office of the Victorian Government Architect (2011-2016)
- Director of Urban Design for Regeneration at VicUrban (2009-2011)
- Head of Urban Design and Homes at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) in London (2005-2008)
- Advisor at CABE (2003-2005)
Big Achievements
Emma has achieved some cool things, including:
- Being interviewed on the 3RRR The Architects radio show in 2010.
- Receiving the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Churchill Fellowship in 2005. This fellowship allowed her to study how to make urban waterways (like rivers and canals in cities) better in places that used to be industrial.
Key Projects Emma Worked On
Emma has been involved in important projects that helped improve how we design cities:
- The CABE DownUnder initiative, where she worked with many other experts to share ideas about good design.
- Helping to create the "Creating Successful Neighbourhoods" publication, which is a guide on how to design great places for people to live.
- Helping to create the "Creating Successful Masterplans" publication, which teaches how to make big, detailed plans for developing areas.
