Why does Australia, a nation of pet lovers, not allow pets on public transport or guarantee tenants the right to keep a pet?
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Cities
Displaying 801 - 820 of 1515 articles
A modest rebalancing of federal tax policy toward build-to-rent housing could fill affordable housing funding gaps. Australian funds are already investing in such a scheme in the US.
Successful parks and urban green spaces encourage us to linger, to rest, to walk for longer. That, in turn, provides the time to maximise the restorative mental benefits.
Australians are crying out for political leadership. One way our leaders can redeem themselves is by getting to work on a complete shake-up of how we pay for and use transport infrastructure.
Being crowded into poor-quality high-density units harms residents’ health, but design features that are known to promote wellbeing can make a big difference to the lives of low-income households.
Three key things that must not be ignored.
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.
We live in dangerous times, but how we react to the risk of terrorism will have impacts on our public realm for many years.
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.
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.
Research shows tranquility can help to boost levels of relaxation, reduce stress and even provide pain relief.
Pedestrians ensure their safety by making eye contact with human drivers. Autonomous cars will have to communicate with nearby people in other ways.
Smart city thinking makes good use of rapidly developing technology to help make cities work better, easier-to-navigate, safer, healthier and more enjoyable places to live.
The primacy given to the car has shaped our cities, the roads that serve them and our very thinking about the place of driving in our lives. And it’s a mindset that leaves cyclists highly vulnerable.
The neediest suburbs get a much poorer deal in Sydney than in Melbourne. A new study provides a suburb-by-suburb breakdown of state investment, including what facilities and services have been funded.
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.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it’s ‘a disgrace’. We can do much better.
Universities can help cities grow and boost employment opportunities.
The Martin Place camp and others like it should make us uncomfortable. We live in a system that creates and tolerates homelessness.
Women have long been the targets of police violence as well as men.
Job Board
-
Assistant Editor - 1 year cadetship
-
Program Development Officer - Business Processes
-
Executive Dean, Faculty of Health
-
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Earth System Science (School of Science)
-
Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)
Top contributors
-
John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
-
Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
-
Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
-
Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
-
Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
-
Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
-
Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
-
Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
-
Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
-
Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
-
Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
