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Category: Planning

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
Flood wall in Austria
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
flood real estate
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
empty Sydney city street
Posted inSpinifex

Our cities need the people who made them

by Andrew Cortese and Tim Williams 16 February 202217 February 2022
sydney metro station
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
Brick wall
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Books: How to inject new life into outdated suburbs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
eco city
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
Construction workers wearing masks
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
Neighbors sharing things and helping each other through open windows of house. Concept of good neighborhood, people's unity, mutual aid and support. Colored flat vector illustration isolated on white.
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

What the Pyrmont legacy really means

by Mike Brown 28 July 202128 July 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
City scape and network connection concept, Blue tone.
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

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