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China’s engagement with Africa has evolved over the past 24 years, with a shift towards mutually beneficial investments.
The past eight Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summits, since 2000, have not resulted in mutual gain, particularly in trade and industrialisation for Africa.
Can a city that’s synonymous with freeways and gridlock deliver a car-free Olympic Games? Los Angeles has picked up the torch.
African countries can learn a lot from Hong Kong on how to use the gains from rising urban land prices to fund infrastructure and other public services.
A civil engineer explains why roadways and rails warp and crack in the heat − and points to some innovative ways to keep the US transportation system healthy as long as possible.
The scanning of a package of gum in an Ohio grocery store in 1974 marked the beginning of an era.
NSW could buy the private operator Transurban and then charge lower tolls over a greater number of roads.
Will Labour’s pothole politics provide the meaningful infrastructure investment desperately needed in Britain?
Resource laws and processes have tried to keep politics out of decision making. But this technocratic approach carries its own problems. The challenge is getting the balance right.
A quirk in the funding formula means remote councils in some states get far less than in others.
Hardening electric transmission systems and monitoring ocean temperatures are two key priorities.
African countries require efficient infrastructure networks to boost trade within the region and with the rest of the world.
Finance minister Nicola Willis made good on two promises with her first budget – tax cuts and no surprises. But the belt tightening required to do that will have longer-term consequences.
A report released next week argues the real problem with New Zealand’s inadequate infrastructure is not money – it’s the three-year political cycle. We need a 30-year, cross-party national plan.
A tonne of carbon dioxide is released for every tonne of cement manufactured from limestone.
City deals are being touted as the answer to NZ’s local infrastructure problems. Lessons from the UK and Australia suggest greater transparency and more coherent planning should be on the table too.
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Victoria is in huge debt but the government is keen to keep spending to stave off worsening unemployment.
Too much pavement and old drainage systems are just two of the problems communities face.
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Proprietor - Hale Consulting, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director, Better Infrastructure Initiative, John Grill Centre for Project Leadership, University of Sydney
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Transport Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
