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Who says building the impossible is impossible?: Rachel Smith at TEDxQUT

2,437 views · Published 18 September 2013 · 12:29 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Named by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation as an 'Emerging International Talent', described by News Limited as 'One of Australia's brightest thinkers on the perpetual challenge of urban planning' and shortlisted as a 2012 TED Global Fellow, Rachel Smith is one of Australia's leading active/sustainable transport planners and urban thinkers. Rachel is a Principal Transport Planner at AECOM, part of the international mobile think-tank the BMW Guggenheim Lab, co-creator of Brisbane's Lazy Sunday Cycle and a blogger at This Big City in London.

Rachel shares her idea on how we can improve transportation in a sustainably conscious way. 

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