Barangaroo is an example of a development with admirable green credentials, but it is also an exclusive precinct that has played a role in displacing the disadvantaged from this part of Sydney.
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What happens in Bristol could set an important precedent for councils to step up and defend their local community’s interests.
The closure of a London pie shop raises questions regarding the relationship between food and identity.
Rapacious gentrification in Vancouver is part of the story and struggle for queer residents but queer pop-ups offer some respite.
The 1968 protests at Columbia University led the institution to abandon a gym project that residents considered racist and cut off its defense work – and generated worldwide attention in the process.
From car mechanics to coffee shops, the railway arches have long provided refuge from inner city rent hikes for small businesses.
More people are choosing to work in shared spaces, and there are many benefits of this to the local economy, as well as downsides. Local governments should work with both.
Universities teach students and produce research – but do they have responsibility to engage with the communities that surround them? Two university presidents explain why their answer is an emphatic yes.
A 17-minute video artwork reflects on time and changing urban communities.
Ultimately, most regulatory interventions in nightlife precincts are about imposing particular ideas of social and moral order not only within these spaces but also in the city more broadly.
When the city centre was revitalised in the 1990s, homeless people were pushed out. With homelessness rising today, it’s important to recognise the links between urban development and displacement.
Gentrification is not the only path for improving urban neighborhoods. A cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens offers another, more inclusive model that scholars have dubbed ‘just green enough.’
This is how the working-class traders of Chrisp Street Market stood up to property developers – and won.
All but a handful of the former public housing tenants are gone. But despite the government again rejecting the recommended heritage listing of the Sirius building, the fight to save it isn’t over.
In the country’s wealthiest cities, gentrification is a dirty word. But it’s all relative – just ask Hartford and Columbus.
There’s a new and growing practice of naming and shaming artists working within the context of gentrification.
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.
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.
Mixing public and private housing in urban renewal projects can be a contentious business. But public good and optimal use of public resources, not developer interests, should guide such decisions.
Cleaning up and reusing contaminated sites, known as brownfields, can create jobs and promote economic growth. But it also can drive gentrification that prices out low-income residents.
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Macquarie University Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, University of Canberra
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Alan Morris é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of City Planning and Transport, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Cultural Economy, University of South Australia
