Diasporic placemaking is often a story of connections and hidden stories. It is also a complicated story about who owns public spaces and who decides who gets to use it.
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Ramadan is a time for prayer, charity and kindness to others. Having it celebrated in such a public way is empowering for Muslim communities across the country and beyond.
A systematic review of thousands of studies around the world has found many aspects of our cities affect loneliness. But people’s relationship with their environment is complex and highly individual.
The Hoddle Grid that dictates the flow of vehicles and people in central Melbourne has had its day. It can be remade to reduce the dominance of cars and create a liveable city for the 21st century.
Yi-Fu Tuan, who died in August 2022, was considered the father of humanistic geography. His scholarship on our sense of space and place can tell us a great deal about the challenges we face today.
Organizers across the US are finding innovative grassroots strategies for helping people thrive. Many of these ventures emphasize working together as part of communities and collective systems.
When the pandemic hit, green space was there for us at a time when others weren’t or couldn’t be. Urban greening might be the solution to the ‘lonelygenic environment’ that our cities have created.
Cities are defined as much by their buildings as what people do in between them. Designing them comes with great responsibility.
Scientists and local communities can work together to design interactive play spaces that build math and literacy skills.
Smart street furniture can do a lot of things at once. Some of these functions offer the public clear benefits, but the data collection and surveillance capabilities raise a number of concerns.
The pandemic offered a tantalizing look at city life with fewer cars in the picture. But with traffic rebounding, there’s limited time to lock in policies that make streets more people-friendly.
Roadsides have long been reserved for parking cars, but the pandemic led to many experiments with other ways of using scarce and valuable public space. We can put it to better and more flexible uses.
NSW is developing a comprehensive new planning policy with the goal of creating healthy places. A new study finds those people who work as placemakers want these goals embedded in laws and budgets.
COVID-19 has underscored the value of parks and public spaces. A new survey shows that US mayors have gotten the message, but post-pandemic plans for public spaces remain largely undefined.
Many people prefer the status quo as they struggle to imagine the alternatives. The pandemic has been the catalyst for urban experiments that have opened our eyes to new possibilities.
Facebook’s choice of profits over the people is difficult to reconcile with its commitment to free speech.
Laneway suites could increase rental stock in established neighbourhoods without affecting their character. Toronto has lagged behind other cities in Canada and North America.
All parks are not equal. The response to the opening of golf courses to the public during the COVID pandemic shows the quality of green open space is a big issue for city residents.
Both the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent debates around public heritage and monuments shape how Nuit Blanche Toronto is seeking to engage artists and viewers in remapping cities.
By using computer crowd simulations, we can figure out how large numbers of people can move around public space while maintaining social distancing.
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Urban Geography and Research Lead, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planning and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Reader in Tourism and Events, University of Westminster
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Professor of Population Health and Environmental Data Science, ARC Future Fellow in nature-based solutions for loneliness, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Urban Designer and Sessional Lecturer, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Urban Health and Environment; NHMRC Career Development Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University
