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The Chief Executive of the National Capital Authority, Malcolm Snow, talks career beginnings and projects past and present with StreetChat. What drew you to a career in urban planning and landscape architecture? My journey started in high school where I started to get serious about study and think about my career direction. In a serendipitous moment my geography teacher suggested a good intersection of my interests in design, art, geography and human geography, would be town planning. It was a relatively new field in Australia in the early seventies, but I was convinced this was what I would do. I was accepted into the undergraduate course at the University of Queensland. I realised it was a broad field and my specific interest was physical planning and design, particularly human-centred design. Further studies …