Most of the activities that define city life we do together. Now that we are having to get used to more isolated lives, will this have lasting social impacts or will city life resume as before?
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Having a public playground in your neighbourhood can add value to your property.
ParentsNext requires places like libraries and public pools to monitor parents' attendance at activities. This undermines their role as spaces of inclusion and support.
Bright lighting alone does not make a space feel safe. It can blind and disorientate and create dark shadows at the edges. Tellingly, 'unsafe' places had much higher illuminance than 'safe' places.
A sense of place matters for people and communities. When a suburb is created from scratch, close attention needs to be paid to the cues from the landscape and meanings people attach to the area.
As they return to classes, a survey finds nearly half of female tertiary students in Melbourne don't feel safe using public transport at night. And 79% have been sexually harassed or victimised.
Australia has guidelines for designing safe parks, but the stories of many women show these are not enough. We must involve women in co-designing these shared public spaces.
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Director of XYX Lab + Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Monash University
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Visiting Professor, Urban Planning, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Research Fellow, Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) Research Hub, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
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Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, Australian National University
