Planners wish to correct past errors by increasing densities, discouraging car dependency and mixing land uses. But imposing imported strategies on Australian cities is producing unhappy results.
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We asked five architecture experts to name one building or structure they wish had been preserved, but couldn’t resist the tides of decay, development and discrimination.
The inexorable logic of the market will create suburban concentrations of lower-income households on a scale hitherto only experienced in the legacy inner-city high-rise public housing estates.
Melbourne has seen tens of thousands of new apartments constructed over recent years, and apartment brands are flourishing. We can see striking typographic similarities with another economic frenzy: the 1870s cattle boom.
Retirees are often urged to downsize to free up suburban properties for the next generation and for higher-density development. What’s being ignored is the costs of moving into a unit or apartment.
Health benefits of being close to nature are well established, but the rise of apartment living means we can’t always be close to greenery.
Apartment-dwellers risk being left behind in the rooftop solar boom. But some projects are showing how apartments can join the transition to a distributed renewable energy future.
Research suggests stakeholders’ understandings of urban consolidation vary. And they often subvert policies to suit their own ends.
As increasing diversity and density come to characterise our cities, how can we build harmonious communities within apartment complexes?
Property inequality keeps on growing, stopping it will take strong principles and brave politicians.
Taking stock of modernist buildings and their potential for reuse is a necessary public project in Johannesburg. A new book that tells the stories of reuse in this African metropolis can help do that.
Top contributors
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Scientia Associate Professor, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS | Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC DECRA Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor and Research Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
