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Planning for walkability: Put pedestrians first
Urban Planning
Monday July 31 2023

Planning for walkability: Put pedestrians first

Transport planners and engineers will be familiar with both the Safe System approach and Movement and Place framework.

What Happens to Design in Planning?
Urban Planning
Tuesday January 31 2023

What Happens to Design in Planning?

Reforms to planning systems around Australia seem to be an endless merry-go-round of reviews, inquiries and agitation in the media by the usual suspects about lack...

Social Housing a Challenge we Must Confront
Urban Planning
Wednesday September 7 2022

Social Housing a Challenge we Must Confront

Architects are at the forefront of calls to increase the number and quality of Australia’s social housing.

More of the Same for Greenfield Shoppers
Urban Planning
Tuesday August 23 2022

More of the Same for Greenfield Shoppers

Despite misty eyed nostalgia in some quarters, we do new greenfield communities much better these days compared with the rampant, unstructured, suburbanization which gripped our cities...

The Way Forward on Christchurch Stadium
Urban Planning
Thursday July 14 2022

The Way Forward on Christchurch Stadium

Christchurch has just concluded a public consultation exercise on whether or not to press ahead with the construction of its new ‘multi-purpose arena’ (or stadium) for...

‘She’ll be right’ urbanism in NSW
Urban Planning
Thursday June 23 2022

‘She’ll be right’ urbanism in NSW

A typical greenfield ‘precinct’ slated for a brand new clutch of neighbourhoods on the fringes of the Sydney metro area might comprise 16,000 or more residential...

We Need (better) City Deals from the Commonwealth
Urban Planning
Monday May 2 2022

We Need (better) City Deals from the Commonwealth

For urbanists, one of the Turnbull Government’s more interesting initiatives was the ‘City Deals’ program.  The idea was largely borrowed from the UK policy of the...

Urban Planning
13 Jun, 2018
Share Bike Company 'Pulls Out' of Melbourne

The distinctive yellow rental bicycles will disappear from Melbourne's streets as the Singapore-based oBike company shuts up shop.

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Urban Planning
20 Mar, 2018
Future Transport Strategy Supports More Housing Density

The release of the Future Transport Strategy 2056 by Transport for NSW supports more housing density.

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Urban Planning
15 Mar, 2018
Re-imaging Campbelltown a good response to the City Deal

The release of the Re-imagining Campbelltown proposal by Campbelltown City Council is an excellent response to the Western Sydney City Deal.

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Urban Planning
9 Mar, 2018
Qld's Land Clearing Laws Reintroduced

Laws to limit land clearing in Queensland have been reintroduced to state parliament, without a controversial clause forcing farmers to prove they hadn't been cutting down...

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Urban Planning
28 Feb, 2018
Infrastructure Australia Calls for National Leadership on Cities

A new report from Infrastructure Australia is calling for the Federal government to have a greater leadership role in securing the global competitiveness of our largest...

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Urban Planning
23 Jan, 2018
SA: No Comment on SA Plan for Electric Cars

British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is seeking to buy some of Holden's assets at its shuttered Adelaide factory with a view to building electric cars on the...

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