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.
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Research suggests stakeholders’ understandings of urban consolidation vary. And they often subvert policies to suit their own ends.
Ambience is a result of a whole range of processes and physical objects. We can use a systems approach to examine and describe what needs to be done to achieve such a subjective quality in a street.
Cities would suffer much less damage and avoid the huge financial losses if we designed them to cope with the effects of cyclones.
Where do women feel safe - or unsafe - in city streets? A new research project has unearthed some disturbing responses.
Redesigning spaces of conflict starts with creating life on the edges. Geelong offers contrasting examples of city centre spaces: one with problems inherent in its design and a nearby one that works.
Think you couldn’t possibly do without your car? There are more options than you might think.
Construction should have stopped once the roofs were erected. Any citizen could then have walked up to the terraced amphitheatre, sat down and gazed back at the country from this shrine to the nation.
The Melbourne suburb of Richmond is prime inner-city real estate, but the community is paying a price for redevelopment that jars with the existing neighbourhood.
From high chairs in public bathrooms to handbag baskets in cafes, Japan is a considerate place. Australia can learn from a society where material culture acts as a reminder to be aware of the needs of others.
Exceptional projects can emerge when regulations are sensibly relaxed due to context. A Fremantle project is a model of progressive higher-density possibilities resulting from flexible planning rules.
Citizens can switch from being consumers to pioneers who drive new designs for living. The German baugruppe model is a leading example.
We’re still in the early days of understanding how cities work. But we do know that creative, healthy and productive cities have certain things in common – and it’s all to do with their ‘urban DMA’.
Design will make the difference between smart city projects offering great promise or actually reinforcing or even widening the existing gaps in unequal ways their cities serve residents.
Modern life is stressful – here’s how to make your local neighbourhood a haven.
This global conference will set out how cities should develop over the next 20 years, tackling some of humankind’s toughest issues.
Here’s how social and political power can come together in cities, to counteract the focus on short-term profit.
Big ideas and big dollars have been invested in making ‘memorable’ places. Paradoxically, as similar solutions are adapted in diverse settings worldwide, this can lead to an uneasy new placelessness.
The rise in temporary use of urban space requires a looser planning vision that can draw on this new type of city-making to inform longer-term developments.
The humble shipping container is sparking a revolution in architecture, plug and play infrastructure, portable labs and many other innovations.
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer and Researcher, Urban Design and Town Planning, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Urban Designer and Sessional Lecturer, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Design Studies, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Land Use Planning & Urban Design, University of the Sunshine Coast
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Planning and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Karine Dupré is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor in Architecture, Griffith University
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Research assistant, Western Sydney University, UNSW Sydney
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, School of Design, RMIT University
