Achieving the goal of sustainable cities depends on rolling back the market after decades of privatisation and deregulation.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Urban planning
Displaying 381 - 400 of 606 articles
The rail project may well help get more commuters into the CBD, but offers few benefits for the parts of the broader metro area where most population growth is occurring.
Financial benefits are behind the development industry’s push for a continuous rapid population growth. But our poorly planned cities are ill-prepared and already struggling.
A rail link is a big step towards transforming transport access and land use in ways that will enable a much bigger city to remain liveable. And Melbourne can learn from Sydney about this.
A former industrial region in the heart of Germany is slowly reinventing itself for the 21st century, offering urban planning lessons for Detroit and beyond.
New research shows many good intentions for creating urban environments that promote good health were not carried through. The solutions start with engaging more closely with residents themselves.
When wealth accumulation becomes the driver of urban regeneration, residents who already have little or no say in the future of our cities are further marginalised by gentrification.
More than 200 mayors have committed their cities to stick with the Paris climate deal no matter what the US does. Electric vehicles offer a promising route to making good on that pledge.
The ubiquitous cafes across Australian cities attract locals and tourists alike, but surely there’s more to thriving neighbourhoods than a flat white.
A new study shows what growing local inequality in American cities looks like and asks what that means for people who live in them.
Melbourne is a product of British colonial planning policies to control public access and movement in Australian cities. This legacy still influences the use of public spaces today.
Could building small affordable dwellings be a part of the solution?
Maboneng in Johannesburg represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”.
Who is entitled to the increase in value created by planning approvals, new infrastructure, population growth or urban development? For John Stuart Mill, the answer would have been the community.
Greening cities that are becoming denser is a major challenge. City-dwellers’ health benefits from both well-designed green spaces and urban density, so we must manage the tensions between them.
Urban bushland has health benefits beyond being a great place to go for a walk. Planners need to consider these when making decisions about the future of our cities.
Must the aggressive, homogeneous global pattern of development take its course in Melbourne’s long-standing multicultural suburb of Footscray?
Smart cities are usually optimised like a business for speed and efficiency. Placemaking can slow down cities to improve health and wellbeing and promote more democratic engagement of citizens.
There’s every chance that, if mismanaged, driverless vehicle technologies will entrench the ills of car dependency.
There are very few approaches that examine all aspects of the complexity of urban design and development. Ergonomics, human factors and sociotechnical systems methods offer a way forward.
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
-
Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
-
Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
-
Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
-
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
-
Neil G Sipe is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
-
Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director, CHETRE, UNSW Sydney
-
Scientia Associate Professor, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
-
Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
