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Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
City living costs are driving people to organise themselves to share a room with strangers. These precarious living arrangements hardly qualify as a home.
It’s clear autonomous vehicles will disrupt our cities, their land use and planning. Whether they make urban life better or worse depends on how well we anticipate and adapt to their impacts.
Instead of focusing on freeways, governments should change the way we pay for urban roads and public transport.
A common theme from science fiction is a vision of a world where humans do less work and machines do more. Why have we not yet reached that point?
A new study shows major Australian cities are suffering an overall loss of green space –
although some areas are doing better than others.
The use of small devices to measure the presence of fine particles in the air is becoming widespread. They’re one more weapon to fight against air pollution, but questions remain on their reliability.
Berliner’s may have won the latest battle to keep Tegel airport open, but they are unlikely to win the war.
The way land titles are issued, bought and sold will soon be very different, thanks to privatisation and technology.
Cities aren’t just a male creation, but women’s contributions have been sidelined. There are ways we can rediscover and restore these women to their rightful place in the stories of our cities.
Earthquake drills, advance warning systems and higher building standards all help to save lives.
Big Issue sellers get social contact and dignity out of their work, but it’s not a secure pathway out of poverty and homelessness. Social enterprises enable small steps; governments can do much more.
Innovation is focused on regional centres that have research and development institutions, but more than 150 regional areas have potential to match this innovation, research finds.
New South Wales is the only state that has made meaningful progress on legislation and enforcement of standards capable of creating a sustainable built environment.
New research has found a marked increase in people, particularly among women over 50, who are building or want to build a tiny house. However, inflexible planning rules often stand in their way.
Research shows that technology disrupts economies of scale, turning megacities’ huge populations from strength to liability. To survive, megacities, like companies, must adapt.
About 10% of empty dwellings on census night – 1.2% of all housing – were available for rental and vacancy rates have changed little in 35 years. Could governments be overreacting?
There is more to bike-share schemes than first meets the eye. As they grow in global popularity, the economic models behind them become increasingly diversified.
Drains take up precious but inaccessible open space in our cities. Converting these to living streams running through the suburbs could make for healthier places in multiple ways.
Top contributors
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
