What’s driving multiple outbreaks of cholera in Nigeria
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Sustainable cities? Australia’s building and planning rules stand in the way of getting there
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.
Interest in tiny houses is growing, so who wants them and why?
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.
Rebuilding after disasters: 5 essential reads
As Texas and Florida rebuild after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, they should plan for future climate change and design infrastructure that can respond to and recover from extreme events.
What about the people missing out on renewables? Here’s what planners can do about energy justice
Not everyone can afford to pay for solar panels up front, but local planners can help disadvantaged households overcome energy poverty in several ways.
Sierra Leone mudslide was a man-made tragedy that could have been prevented
Unless urban planning is taken seriously in Sierra Leone, there's a risk that similar disasters like the mudslides could occur with potentially more devastating consequences.
Retrofitted cities are forcing residents to live with planning failures – we’re due for a rethink
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.
Can our cities’ thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’?
A new project documents who uses urban industrial lands slated for redevelopment. It reveals a vibrant but largely hidden sector at the interface between creative industries and small manufacturing.
Why investor-driven urban density is inevitably linked to disadvantage
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
It’s not just the buildings, high-density neighbourhoods make life worse for the poor
For the first time in Australia, more higher-density housing than detached housing was being built last year. Compact cities have pros and cons, but the downsides fall more heavily on the poor.
This is why apartment living is different for the poor
In the push for more compact cities, don't forget the ways apartment living is different. And often the downsides of these differences weigh heavily on low-income and disadvantaged households.
How ‘temporary urbanism’ can transform struggling industrial towns
Pop-up parks and tiny houses are just a few of the innovative solutions that can help post-industrial cities across Europe and North America adapt to the future.
Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Gurran about the rise of AirBnb and what the limited data publicly available can tell us about how it's blurring the line between residential property and tourism.
Don’t give up on ambitious green architecture – despite London’s Garden Bridge folly
Such projects should be clear from the outset about who owns them, who will build them, and who they are for.
Pace of renewable energy shift leaves city planners struggling to keep up
Traditional urban planning is being stretched by the pace at which renewable energy systems are being installed. New codes and guidelines are needed to manage emerging conflicts over land use.
This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities’ commuter crush
Victoria offers lessons in the benefits of integrating metropolitan and regional planning, using regional rail to shrink distance and ease the pressures of growth on our big capital cities.
A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
While many talk about 30-minute cities, some aim for residents to be able to get to most services within 20 minutes. But cities like Melbourne have an awful lot of work to do to achieve their goal.
Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from 'the flats'.
Vanishing Australian backyards leave us vulnerable to the stresses of city life
Australians are losing the backyards that once served as retreats from the stresses of city living. Our health is likely to suffer as cities become less green and much hotter.
Planners know depressingly little about a city’s impacts on our mental health
Research shows planners and built environment professionals have surprisingly poor knowledge about how cities might harm mental health. The good news is that simple steps can make a big difference.
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Dallas Rogers is a Friend of The Conversation.Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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