Media Release

An intriguing new series on the secret life of streets presents an expert-guided travelogue through the everyday but extraordinary roads, lanes, carriageways, cul-de-sacs, alleyways and back-roads we love but so often take for granted.

Street Cred, hosted by award-winning urban designer and landscape architect Barry Murphy, investigates what makes great thoroughfares, how they are planned and designed, and where they’re headed for the future.

Murphy explores how streets are designed and utilised, and how they draw communities together. Drawing on industry experts, he investigates how they respond to our need for movement, services, for socialising, exercise, play and entertainment.

The pilot episode features figures such as UrbanFold’s Orlando Harrison and Mesh urban designer Michelle Calleja as well as sustainability warrior developer Brendan Condon, broadcaster/influencer Jacqui Felgate and colourful developer Rory Costelloe of Villawood Properties.

This initial Street Cred outing looks at what makes streets popular in inner suburbs, the greenfields and regional areas. It highlights challenges making streets and their communities more environmentally responsible, user-friendly and positive.

Says Murphy: “Streets are fascinating thoroughfares, sometimes with a bit of a secret life but often with a lot more credit than we give them. They can be fun, utilitarian, beautiful, controversial too.

“Streets are much more important in our lives than many of us think. We shouldn’t take them, and everything they do for us, for granted.

“Down the ages, streets have been engineered for transport, for business and personal movement.

“Their variations, their designs, their responses to land shapes and location – and their response to human activity in particular – are intriguing.”

Street Cred has been produced by Provocative Property Media.