Developers love the cul-de-sac, but for the rest of us it’s one of the least practical and efficient ways to design streets.
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Designed to act as a call for ideas and projects by all of Genoa’s stakeholders, Rolli Lab seeks to enhance the World Heritage site’s impact on city’s cultural, social and economic activity.
A planning strategy for Australia’s first multi-city region, home to nearly one in four Australians, is being developed. So what’s the thinking behind creating an integrated network of six cities?
Where does your city rank?
Ghanaians aren’t using the new ‘smart’ street address system which was intended to improve service delivery.
Poorly regulated housing is leading to more greenhouse gas emissions through energy loss, increased energy requirements and greater exposure to weather extremes.
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.
COP27 wraps up with Solutions Day, focusing on sustainable cities and transport, green buildings and resilient infrastructure. Climate-related disasters show the urgency of urban planning responses.
Ghanaian urban and development planners need to move away from looking up to examples of innovations from the global north.
The layouts of our cities and their transport systems were not planned with women in mind. Inflexible services and inconveniently located schools, childcare and workplaces pose daily challenges.
Shade, street furniture, streetscapes – they all matter when it comes to making a footpath appealing.
Local councils are on the front line in a planning system that lacks an up-to-date planning framework to properly assess flood risks and prepare responses.
Facing human threats, Mumbai’s Koli community are taking risk reduction into their own hands – other vulnerable coastal settlements should take note.
The first chief heat officers appointed in Australia are part of a global partnership that’s responding to the dangers of rising city temperatures and the need to manage the risks.
The zoning policies that planners introduced to create vibrant and resilient mixed-use neighbourhoods have had the opposite effect, as services and residential developments crowd out light industry.
Growing fresh produce on the outskirts of a city reduces food miles and increases food security. But the foodbowls next to our our big cities are fast losing their land to urban growth.
Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje was Nigeria’s first professor of geography. He has died at 90.
A fast-growing population – 50% bigger than it was in 1990 – is causing, directly or indirectly, all of Australia’s serious environmental problems. These impacts must be central to decision-making.
Informal workers are victims of the smart city drive in Africa.
A bid to amend plans for the final stage of the Barangaroo project would once again favour developers’ interests over the public interest. It shows how badly the planning process has been undermined.
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Associate Professor, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
