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Author Archives: Peter Newman, Curtin University

Professor Peter Newman AO is the professor of sustainability at Curtin University and the coordinating lead author for transport in the recent IPCC Mitigation Report.

Posted inSpinifex

You’re wrong Matt Canavan. Especially on lithium. Here’s a Western Australian response

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 3 May 20224 May 2022
Posted inPlanning

Books: How to inject new life into outdated suburbs

by Peter Newman, Curtin University, Peter Newton, Swinburne University of Technology, Stephen Glackin, Swinburne University of Technology and Giles Thomson, Curtin University 1 February 202222 February 2022
Posted inSpinifex

Fast-tracked planning for the coronavirus recovery: Can triage help?

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 27 April 2020
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

High-speed rail? At $200 billion we’d better get it right

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 19 July 20163 May 2022
Posted inPlanning

“The 30-minute city”: how do we put the political rhetoric into practice?

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 21 March 2016
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

Defying the “one-hour rule” for city travel, traffic modelling drives policy madness

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 19 January 201621 January 2016
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

Want to build better cities? Get the private sector involved in rail projects

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 16 December 2015
Posted inEngineering/Technology

Going down the same old road: driverless cars aren’t a fix for our transport woes

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 2 December 2015
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

The light rail genie is out of the bottle, but how many cities will get their wish?

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 8 October 2015
Posted inPlanning

Don’t panic! Traffic congestion is not coming for our cities

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 27 July 201527 July 2015
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

How to build light rail in our cities without emptying the public purse

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 20 April 201520 April 2015
Posted inPlanning

Perth could become a model for 21st-century urban planning

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 10 February 2015
Posted inInfrastructure & transport

The East-West Link is dead – a victory for 21st-century thinking

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 3 December 2014
Posted inSpinifex

Peter Newman: the top 10 myths about high density

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 20 August 201419 September 2016
Posted inArticles

Peter Newman: Why climate whingers and climate deniers need to get real

by Peter Newman, Curtin University 19 December 201326 August 2014

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