New York City's municipal budget relies heavily on the property taxes of extremely high-value real estate. That drives gentrification and distorts local policy in other ways that hurt residents.
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Leonardo da Vinci's ideal city contained design features and engineering works not realised until hundreds of years after he died.
China is funding global infrastructure projects to expand its influence and capacity for economic growth.
With so few public washrooms in our cities, vulnerable people are forced to use café and restaurant washrooms. How do mostly minimum wage café and restaurant workers deal with this?
Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla are redefining key aspects of daily life such as work, mobility and leisure, using our cities as laboratories for their innovations.
Economic polarisation across Europe is becoming an important phenomenon, in part driven by monetary policies that can increase office prices and can even affect the fundamentals that drive the markets.
In a context marked by major ecological, social and economic changes, cities are at the heart of transitions.
As Toronto hurtles towards its population dense future, the making of significant green communities for its waterfront needs to be urgently considered.
Our current celebration of cities is a big shift from the past generation when cities were seen to contain all of our problems. Should we believe the hype? Are the new ideas equally problematic?
Although it is unlikely to find a scenario similar to that of the major flood of 1910, France’s national flood forecasting network is closely monitoring the level of the Seine.
Essays On Air: Australia’s property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days.
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Australia's property market is slowing and many are contemplating a possible bust. But today's episode of Essays On Air reminds us that since colonial days, Australia's property market has had its ups and downs.
It will be hard to adjust. Considering what happened with the onset of car travel and web surfing, society can't just wing it.
In the future, Europe will suffer from more heat waves as well as extreme rainfall, presenting new challenges for planners and health care services. Building resilient cities can help.
The State of Australian Cities Conference begins in Adelaide today. In major cities across the nation, there's a stark contrast between lofty planning goals and the sprawling reality on the ground.
With the rise of the knowledge-based economy, fab labs, maker spaces and more, cities are being transformed into production centres. This dynamic movement is ripe with promise, but also has risks.
In France, research on local indicators’ inadequacies led a group of stakeholders and researchers in Grenoble to develop an alternative that focuses on social well-being and sustainability.
So you're having to room share to live in the city. What if you need more than a place to sleep? Well, now you can rent a living room by the minute. Welcome to the world of distributed living.
Movies often portray the city as a dystopia, particularly in the 'neo-noir' genre, which explores postmodern themes. TV shows and ads present an altogether sunnier picture of life in the city.
Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
Big ideas and big dollars have been invested in making 'memorable' places. Paradoxically, as similar solutions are adapted in diverse settings worldwide, this can lead to an uneasy new placelessness.
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Professor of Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Université Grenoble Alpes
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Professor and Director, Urban Studies and Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University
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Program Director, Master of Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW
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Ingénieur de recherche en prévision hydrologique, Irstea
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Emeritus Professor of Planning, University of South Australia
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Ingénieur de l’agriculture et de l’environnement, Irstea
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Ingénieur en chef des ponts, eaux & forêts, directeur d'unité de recherche, Irstea
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Ingénieure de recherche en hydrologie, Irstea
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Professor of Landscape Ecology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
