Samantha Choudhury
Samantha has over 15 years experience in Australia and the USA as a passionate urbanist whose interest lies in creating prosperous places that matter and that people can connect with. She has a background in urban planning, social planning, community development, with a speciality in participatory design and approaches, and has worked on a range of urban scales including city-wide urban renewal and regeneration, neighbourhood revitalisation, community-led planning and placemaking, planning for mixed use and commercial environments, providing urban design advice and facilitating urban development to name a few.
Her most recent work focuses on building years of practice around what makes places successful to now provide strategic research, place trends and insights for the commercial property sector including working with some of the largest global asset owners in Australia and around the world.
Currently she is contracting for local government and state government providing advice on placemaking and economic development initiatives, exploring ways to repurpose roads, public spaces and streets in a post-Covid19 world to support mainstreets and local businesses so that they may thrive through and beyond the pandemic.