Australian cities are getting hotter. The many reasons for this include urban densification policies, climate change and social trends such as bigger houses and apartment living, which leave less space…
Urban hacktivism: getting creative about involving citizens in city planning
Urban and regional planning, as an institutional practice, is increasingly criticised for failing to meet ordinary citizens’ needs. Enter “urban hacktivism”. Fusing hacking and activism, the term has previously referred to…
EVENT: REGIONAL PLANNING FOR SUCCESSFUL CITIES
Cities are often thought of as organic structures that ‘grow’ and ‘evolve,’ to meet the changing needs of their citizens. They have a ‘heart,’ ‘arterial’ corridors, ‘a soul’ and they…
Media picture of urban consolidation focuses more on a good scare story than the facts
Neighbourhoods as “battlefields”, “sardine city”, traditional suburbs as “threatened species” and urban hubs as the domain of “latte-sipping yuppies”. These are examples of the dramatic and negative imagery Queensland newspapers…
Smart Cities Plan offers signs of hope, but are Turnbull and Taylor just dreamin’?
For committed urbanists, any sign of serious urban policy action by the federal government is welcome. Early announcements by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his appointment of a minister for…