Shared e-scooters are much more regulated and monitored than privately owned e-scooters, which are likely to pose greater risks as a result.
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Brisbane is aiming to be the first Olympic Games host to make carbon savings greater than the emissions the event produces. That’s easier said than done, so what’s the plan to achieve this goal?
Sydney emerges as the most segregated of our biggest capital cities, and the trend will continue without broad changes in government policy and investment.
Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author Melanie Saward’s Burn is structured around three fires. It bears witness to the role institutions play in exacerbating trauma associated with colonialism.
Simply rezoning land for higher density is not enough to achieve the planning goal of transforming low-density and car-centric neighbourhoods into mixed-use and walkable neighbourhoods.
In this podcast, @michellegrattan and the Greens spokesperson on housing and homelessness, @MChandlerMather, discuss the $10b housing fund, rent-freezes, and net migration
What steps is the state government taking to bring Brisbane closer to being a smart city while managing rapid growth? And what differences can city residents expect to see for themselves?
Scooter share schemes actually become more popular in hot weather, as people turn to them to avoid breaking a sweat
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.
Planning has begun for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics and already it’s clear the city has learned from the mistakes of other hosts, but its plans to be truly sustainable have one glaring weak point.
Lead levels in backyard hen eggs are often much higher than in eggs bought in the shops. A new study of soil lead, chickens and eggs locates the high-risk areas in our biggest cities.
As history shows, many natural and human factors determine how water will behave during a flood.
Prone to flooding, by the 1970s Brisbane’s South Bank was largely undeveloped open space. It is now home to Queensland’s major cultural institutions.
As someone who lost pretty much everything in the 2011 Brisbane floods and then led a study on community responses to those floods, I have some insights on what helps – and what doesn’t.
We need to understand the student activities and movements that are spreading the Delta variant of the virus in the latest Brisbane outbreak.
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.
A deep clean involves cleaning objects or surfaces that may not be routinely cleaned, such as walls, ventilation ducts, curtains, carpets, and hard-to-reach places.
It’s all well and good to be able to connect cases through genomic sequencing. But it’s important to be able to connect them epidemiologically as well.
The relaxed rules allow Brisbane to bid to host the Olympics at a much lower cost than previous host cities have had to bear. But who really benefits?
Greater Brisbane will spend the next three days in lockdown, although this time around it’s to ensure no further spread from a single known case, rather than to suppress an existing outbreak.
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Human Geography, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Geographical Information Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Researcher, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
