Posted inInfrastructure & transport Why Australia needs to have a conversation about removing freeways by Andrew Sadauskas 7 April 20227 April 2022
Posted inSpinifex Unprincipled moves: Is World Health Day worth celebrating? by Susan Thompson, Norma Shankie-Williams and Danny Wiggins 7 April 202214 April 2022
Posted inPlanning Perrottet plays with fire as he lets his planning minister loose with developers by Tina Perinotto 5 April 20226 April 2022
Posted inGovernment/Regulations “A ticking time bomb”: budget derails long-term thinking on transport by Andrew Sadauskas 31 March 202231 March 2022
Posted inPlanning What Australian cities can learn from New York City’s building emissions laws by Rose Mary Petrass 24 March 202224 March 2022
Posted inClimate Change There are levees and leaving – and then there’s breaking the cycle of build/break/repair by Rose Mary Petrass 21 March 202225 March 2022
Posted inClimate Change After the floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat by Antonia Settle, The University of Melbourne 15 March 202215 March 2022
Posted inPlanning Heavy rain and floods hits disadvantaged people the hardest by Rose Mary Petrass 1 March 20221 March 2022
Posted inPlanning Brisbane climate positive Olympics – the pressure’s on Queensland? by Marcus Foth, Greg Hearn, Nicholas Kamols and Troy Turner 17 February 202218 February 2022
Posted inSpinifex Our cities need the people who made them by Andrew Cortese and Tim Williams 16 February 202217 February 2022
Posted inSpinifex Metro Rail and densification – so who buried the strategy? by Philip Bull, Civic Assessment and Philip Bull, Dickson Rothschild 15 February 202223 March 2022
Posted inPlanning Footpaths and cycleways are an act of democracy – Ask Steph by Rob Stokes, Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport 10 February 202214 February 2022
Posted inConstruction & Development Like “hitting a brick wall”: building practitioners call for suspension of NSW’s “clunky” planning portal by Rose Mary Petrass 1 February 20221 February 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Posted inPlanning Books: How to inject new life into outdated suburbs by Peter Newman, Curtin University, Peter Newton, Swinburne University of Technology, Stephen Glackin, Swinburne University of Technology and Giles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 inPlanning Hearts, cells and mud: how biology helps humans re-imagine our cities in vexed times by Marco Amati, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University 27 January 202227 January 2022
Posted inNews from the Front Desk On how to interpret the news and be on full alert by The Fifth Estate - our view 17 December 202120 December 2021
Posted inPlanning How your income and where you live increase your likelihood of getting COVID-19 by Dr Youqing Fan, Alan Morris and Awais Piracha 14 December 202114 December 2021
Posted inPlanning How Athens chief heat officer Eleni Myrivili is dealing with extreme heat, the “silent killer” by Rose Mary Petrass 7 December 20217 December 2021
Posted inPlanning Rob Stokes just made NSW Australia’s most progressive government by Duncan Murray 18 November 202118 November 2021
Posted inPlanning Why are we not surprised? Australia last again, on EVs this time by Jan Fisher 17 November 202125 November 2021
Posted inSpinifex New Zealand rushes in on upzoning where Australia fears to tread by Jago Dodson, RMIT University and Iain White, University of Waikato 11 November 202111 November 2021
Posted inPlanning & Design Melbourne overhauls urban design guide to stop “spreadsheets in the sky” by Duncan Murray 6 October 20217 October 2021
Posted inPlanning Planning for a network of circular economy villages by Steven Liaros, PolisPlan 13 September 202115 September 2021
Posted inSpinifex A farewell to boarding houses by Philip Bull, Civic Assessment 7 September 202120 June 2022
Posted inPlanning DPIE’s new planning portal a bureaucratic nightmare by Nigel Bell, ECOdesign Architects 2 September 20212 September 2021
Posted inSpinifex How Covid might really be changing where we live by Philip Bull, Civic Assessment 31 August 202120 June 2022
Posted inPlanning Going up the country: how to cope with, and encourage, Australia’s regional shift by Duncan Murray 27 August 202130 August 2021
Posted inPlanning City of Sydney unveils pitch to increase employment land opportunities for city’s south by Duncan Murray 28 July 202128 July 2021
Posted inPlanning Here comes PlanTech to help transform our cities – but how? by Claire Daniel, Jago Dodson, RMIT University, Chris Pettit and Audrey Marsh, Planning Institute of Australia 27 July 202127 July 2021