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Urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need for daily mobility
Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
The 2022 election looms as the most important for Ontario’s environment in the modern era, and its impact may echo for generations to come.
Fewer weekly commutes means many will be willing to commute further. The effects on urban growth of working from home pose serious challenges.
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
Before the pandemic, the country was making great strides towards creating more compact, sustainable and liveable cities.
Cities can learn from past pandemics to see how communities and lifestyles are shaped by outbreaks.
The demands on land and resources from our fast-growing cities are unsustainable, as are the wastes they produce. Yet still our leaders act as if unlimited growth is possible.
City officials have not considered how approaches like mixed-use developments closer to the city centre might alleviate the housing shortage as well as protect Akure’s green spaces.
When we build marinas, ports, jetties and coastal defences we introduce hard structures that weren’t there before, and which reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the water.
State and local governments can’t do much about the rapid population growth in Melbourne, but they can take steps to reduce the costs of growing disparities between the outer suburbs and inner city.
City fringe foodbowls supply much of our fresh produce and can increase climate resilience by making better use of wastewater and organic waste. A new roadmap outlines how to protect these foodbowls.
Planning innovations around the world offer inspiration, but ultimately the innovations needed to make Australia’s sprawling cities more sustainable must be shaped by local conditions.
To improve access to locally grown food and help prevent disruptions to supply chains caused by climate change, we need to support farming on the fringes of cities.
Vancouver lost out to Calgary as Canada’s most livable city this year. Why? Is it the high cost of housing or is it the city’s ‘neighbourhood first’ method that sometimes creates business instability?
Uncontrolled growth at the expense of the environment will severely exacerbate the impacts of climate change. As shown with tragic floods in India, our cities are not prepared for extreme events.
Dense, high buildings limit the space available for urban greenery. But imaginative projects that involve the community can ensure nature and the city go hand in hand.
Self-driving, shared, electric vehicles and increasing urban density represent four disruptions that will transform city life. But a transport utopia isn’t a guaranteed outcome of their interactions.
Many countries around the world are vulnerable to wildfires, but a fire engineer warns that most are not spending enough on research into how fires spread and ways to reduce risks.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Urban Studies and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
