# Urbanerds - talk urbanism at a bar with special guest Dr. Stuart Donovan **URL:** \ **Category:** Events\ **Tags:** urbanerds\ **Created:** [10 April 2025 09:09 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774 "2025-04-10T09:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jessica](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jessica](https://spokes.nz/u/jessica)\ **Post date:** [10 April 2025 09:09 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/1 "2025-04-10T09:09:32Z")
> **Urbanerds** > > **Starts:** 16 April 2025 19:00 (Pacific/Auckland)\ > **Ends:** 16 April 2025 21:00 (Pacific/Auckland) I’m setting up an urbanerds - basically a catchup at a bar to talk urbanism. Next **Wednesday at 7pm at WOOF.** The reason; Stu is coming to town next week. Dr. Stuart Donovan is a **Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and has two decades of experience working in Australia and New Zealand in spatial, urban, and transport economics; multi-modal transport planning; and land use policy.** And is keen to meet the urbanist community here in Dunedin. I hope you can join me. Please let me know if you are keen, so we have an idea how many people will show up. And if you know of any people that are keen to join, please forward this message. Would be great to see some people from Spokes Dunedin there. ---
**Author:** ![jessica](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jessica](https://spokes.nz/u/jessica)\ **Post date:** [10 April 2025 09:23 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/2 "2025-04-10T09:23:10Z")
I’m setting up an urbanerds - basically a catchup at a bar to talk urbanism. **Next Wednesday at 7pm at WOOF.** The reason; Stu is coming to town next week. Dr. Stuart Donovan is a **Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research and has two decades of experience working in Australia and New Zealand in spatial, urban, and transport economics; multi-modal transport planning; and land use policy.** And is keen to meet the urbanist community here in Dunedin. I hope you can join me. Please let me know if you are keen, so we have an idea how many people will show up. And if you know of any people that are keen to join, please forward this message. Would be great to see some people from Spokes Dunedin there. P.S. I have created an event, but not sure if thats viewable for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![heike](https://spokes.nz/user_avatar/spokes.nz/heike/32/239_2.png) [@heike](https://spokes.nz/u/heike)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2025 02:41 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/3 "2025-04-12T02:41:11Z")
Kia ora Jess that sounds fantastic - I will be there, ka mihi Heike ---
**Author:** ![jessica](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jessica](https://spokes.nz/u/jessica)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2025 03:03 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/4 "2025-04-12T03:03:32Z")
Great see you Wednesday at Woof. ---
**Author:** ![frstep](https://spokes.nz/user_avatar/spokes.nz/frstep/32/152_2.png) [@frstep](https://spokes.nz/u/frstep)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2025 06:12 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/5 "2025-04-12T06:12:38Z")
I think I can make it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mjenks](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@mjenks](https://spokes.nz/u/mjenks)\ **Post date:** [15 April 2025 19:51 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/6 "2025-04-15T19:51:02Z")
Hi Jessica, this looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately something has come up so I probably wont be able to make it but will see how i go, have a good evening. Matt ---
**Author:** ![jessica](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jessica](https://spokes.nz/u/jessica)\ **Post date:** [15 April 2025 20:10 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/7 "2025-04-15T20:10:03Z")
Thanks for letting me know. ---
**Author:** ![heike](https://spokes.nz/user_avatar/spokes.nz/heike/32/239_2.png) [@heike](https://spokes.nz/u/heike)\ **Post date:** [16 April 2025 04:48 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/8 "2025-04-16T04:48:26Z")
Kia ora Jess, I am so sorry but we won;t be able to make it tonight - our dog has just been operated on and these last days have been stressful - we are able to pick him up now and need to stay at home with him. Please keep us posted on how the meeting went. Ka mihi Heike ---
**Author:** ![NathanK](https://spokes.nz/user_avatar/spokes.nz/nathank/32/2002_2.png) [@NathanK](https://spokes.nz/u/NathanK)\ **Post date:** [17 April 2025 09:41 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/9 "2025-04-17T09:41:11Z")
> [@jessica](#): > > P.S. I have created an event, but not sure if thats viewable for everyone. It was! New Topics in #Events send out a notification automatically. I’ve merged your two posts. How did it go? ---
**Author:** ![jessica](https://spokes.nz/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jessica](https://spokes.nz/u/jessica)\ **Post date:** [20 April 2025 06:24 UTC](https://spokes.nz/t/urbanerds-talk-urbanism-at-a-bar-with-special-guest-dr-stuart-donovan/774/10 "2025-04-20T06:24:09Z")
Thanks Nathan it was great! Thanks to everyone who joined us from Spokes! It was wonderful to see so many passionate urbanists in one place, sharing ideas and insights about cities, spatial economics, transport planning, and land use policy and it was great to have Stuart there to share his expertise and engaging discussion. I personally met some great people and got some great tips. I’m keen to do this more often to get all the different people together that are working in this space. Follow me on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicadeheij/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicadeheij/)