Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
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We must heed lessons from past storms and plan ahead, as climate change will only exacerbate future coastal disasters.
Studying local Africans’ contributions to the abolition of slavery provides a fuller understanding of its history.
The new HOTA Gallery, with its colourful organic facade and exciting exhibitions, happily refutes popular images of the Gold Coast.
Like many great men, the legacy of Ghana’s independence hero is not uncontested.
Local planning rules have prevailed in a long-running dispute over a proposed Gold Coast quarry that threatened the amenity of nearby residents and koalas.
The main winner of Commonwealth Games 2018 is … the City of Gold Coast.
Behind the built-up glitz of Surfers Paradise lies a deep history that has been written and overwritten in successive layers that have become thinner and thinner as time goes on.
The Gold Coast is mostly relying on existing assets, and most refurbishments and extensions were completed long before the Games, meaning the community has been able to use these facilities.
Events like the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony present history as a simplistic story of progress and reconciliation.
The consumption of sport has already changed dramatically, and esports in major competitions is the next step.
Scenes of sand, sea and skyscrapers will add a glitzy veneer to an Old Empire at play.
Preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are pushing homeless people out of town, and out of the state. Sadly, that’s not unusual for events of this sort.
The light rail project pushed up property values within 800 metres of the stations by over 30% from 1996 to 2016. Gains on this scale offer a potential source of finance for public transport.
Investing in staging sport is ultimately a matter of turning the entire host environment into a stage.
Conflicts over coastal areas have largely been between development and preserving what makes these attractive places to live. Rising sea levels are now complicating our relationship with the coast.
Recently published research has found that the concentration of poorer people in hotter places is a real problem for cities’ capacity to cope with climate change.
In the dying days of empire, the British financed a global cinema service.
With foresight, we can steer our cities closer to the future we want instead of the futures we fear.
In Australia, a small but growing cadre of residents is experimenting with hacktivism in planning. Giving a voice to real people living in everyday places can help ensure planning meets public needs.
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Deakin University
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, James Cook University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Proprietor - Hale Consulting, The University of Melbourne
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Assoc Professor, School of Justice, QUT, Queensland University of Technology
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Strategic Advisor on the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
