Despite adopting the goal of creating medium-density neighbourhoods to end urban sprawl, our cities have struggled to achieve it. Confused debates about ‘good density’ are part of the problem.
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With projections that 68% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050, it’s important we tackle loneliness now before it becomes epidemic.
Using the incredible wealth of fossil data and a modern ecological theory, researchers estimated population density for the extinct apex predator.
Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
High-density city living has been touted as a way to solve the problem of creating more sustainable, more liveable cities. But instead cities are only more liveable for a few.
The internal density and layout of buildings are key factors in COVID-19 transmission risk. This is not an argument against high-density cities, some of which have successfully contained the virus.
The rise of global cities, metropolises that dominate their states, is exposing Australia’s lack of metropolitan governments. It’s time to restart the evolution of our states after a century on hold.
Understanding population density takes more than just arithmetic – that’s where mapping can help reveal which countries and cities are really getting cramped.
Reasoned debates on sustainable migration intake levels are important. But transport and health infrastructure shortfalls in Western Sydney won’t be solved by reactive anti-immigration attitudes.
Tokyo has experienced extraordinary population growth but is among the world’s most liveable cities. Just how has it managed the pressures of growth?
We’re still in the early days of understanding how cities work. But we do know that creative, healthy and productive cities have certain things in common – and it’s all to do with their ‘urban DMA’.
Many factors have influenced population density change in Australian cities over the past 30 years. Melbourne has led the way in inner-city rebirth as a way to help manage future growth.
Some scenarios put the UK population at just under 80m by 2039. Here are the facts.
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Professor in Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Dean of the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton
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Associate professor, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Consultant (GIS), Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, University of Technology Sydney
