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Cities can learn from past pandemics to see how communities and lifestyles are shaped by outbreaks.
After the ‘world’s biggest work-from-home experiment’, many people (and their employers) might decide they needn’t commute every day. If even a fraction do that, infrastructure needs will change.
In reacting to the pandemic, architecture can reclaim its impact by conceding its loss of connection with public health, looking beyond Western thinking for its references.
While the bushfire crisis might provoke a sense of urgency to rebuild, we need to stop and properly plan where and how we construct buildings and open spaces.
Public protests eventually forced the scrapping of some proposed freeways in 1973. Today, we have another round of projects and people are protesting again, with good reason. Government should listen.
Transport modelling has been tarnished by its use to justify the predetermined projects politicians favour. But, if used more transparently, it’s a valuable tool for planning our future cities.
While called a transportation plan,
it was heavily skewed towards roads. We need the type of city-shaping thinking that underpinned the plan, but today’s plans must match 21st-century priorities.
The new payphones have Wi-Fi, mobile charging and transport information. But city councils are concerned they’re digital billboards for Telstra, which could cost billions in lost productivity.
We need to change council planning rules that prevent community members from having a say on proposed development in their local area.
We just need shops, cafes and other services within easy reach to get us walking extra minutes in our busy days.
It doesn’t take much to start making it easier for people with a disability to get around a city.
Developing computer models can help us to study the structural causes of urban inequality.
A substantial building programme is needed to rearrange our cities to benefit all types of journeys – not just commutes.
The global trend is to free up valuable city space by reducing parking and promoting other forms of transport that don’t clog roads and pollute the air. Australian cities are still putting cars first.
Australia has well established urban design guidelines, whereas many Chinese cities don’t have any – and it shows. But Australia can also learn from China.
Cities must manage all the competing uses for limited roadside space to avoid congestion and maximise efficiency. And that begins with reliable data.
Children are the future, so why don’t we listen to them more often?
Good urban design and walkability boost local economic activity by increasing public activity, but cities need to pay more attention to the effects of microclimates on streets and public spaces.
Indonesia has plans to move its capital outside of Java, but the government has yet to make the case for this move.
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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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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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Public Transport, Director Public Transport Research Group, Monash University
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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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Honorary Associate Professor in Planning, University of Queensland, University of Sydney
