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EVENT: REGIONAL PLANNING FOR SUCCESSFUL CITIES

  • July 1, 2016
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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…

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Media picture of urban consolidation focuses more on a good scare story than the facts

  • May 12, 2016
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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…

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The way we fund Australian transport projects is nonsensical

  • July 20, 2015
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Dr Matthew Burke is deputy director and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Urban Research Program. His research is mainly in how transport systems, land uses and travel…

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Rethinking Social Housing

  • May 27, 2015
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Why do we need a house? It beats sleeping in the street. Yes, but it also means we are healthier so we need less hospital and medical care; it means…

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What has happened to the Australian backyard?

  • May 8, 2015
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Up until the end of the 1980s, nearly all suburban houses in Australia had large backyards by world standards.  The older type of suburban form is still characterised by backyards…

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Move over, McMansions – the tiny house movement is here

  • March 18, 2015
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A small group of people are gathered around a campfire in a Victorian State Forest. Members of the Tiny Houses Australia community, they’re attending a Spring Camp to talk about how to…

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Gerotopias: the ‘good life’ for later life

  • March 5, 2015
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The Federal Government’s push to move the retirement age to 70 will impact on the dreams and realities of many Baby Boomers (those people born between 1946 and 1964). This…

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What do major sporting events leave behind?

  • December 15, 2014
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Event legacy – the positive things left behind after a major sporting event – has become an important part of the competition to host events and winning bids are now…

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Who is willing to pay for passenger transport infrastructure?

  • September 8, 2014
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In modern society, every day we make decisions about our willingness to pay. At a basic level, we might consider paying extra for milk from the easy-to-access corner shop rather…

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The Return of Light Rail to Australian Cities

  • August 25, 2014
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“The light rail scheme is such a great natural experiment,” ponders Dr Matthew Burke a senior planning and transport researcher within Urban Research Program. “Can contemporary light rail really change…

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