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Dame Edna Everage — a character created by Australian comedian Barry Humphries — models a hat based on the Sydney Opera House. She is currently performing Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour.
Posted inPlanning

The minister for Sydney needs to think about more than boosterism  

by Mike Brown 29 August 20194 September 2019
Precinct Design Policy
Posted inBriefs

WA gets inaugural precinct design policy

by The Fifth Estate 15 August 201916 August 2019
Savannah de Savary
Posted inPlanning

Gamifying the planning process to bring young people into the fold

by Poppy Johnston 13 August 201920 August 2019
Posted inPlanning

Cities must become civilised if nations won’t

by Mike Brown 1 August 20191 August 2019
Posted inPlanning

Martin Powell at Siemens Digitalise 2019 – how smart cities can be sustainable

by Poppy Johnston 25 July 2019
Posted inPlanning

Greater Sydney Commission report: Sydney’s gaping urban heat and liveability imbalance

by Poppy Johnston 16 July 2019
ancient rome
Posted inPlanning

Better urban cities: lessons from the ancient Romans

by Poppy Johnston 16 July 2019
Posted inBriefs

New NSW Planning, Industry and Environment secretary wants environment and development to make peace

by The Fifth Estate 16 July 201917 July 2019
Posted inPlanning

Why NSW needs a revised medium density housing code

by John Brockhoff, Planning Institute of Australia; Juliet Grant, PIA; Jenny Rudolph, Elton Consulting; & Greg New, GLN Planning   10 July 201911 July 2019
Posted inPlanning

Three ways the Hunter is making the sustainability shift

by Willow Aliento 4 July 20198 July 2019
Posted inPlanning

CRC for Low Carbon Living: what it did and what’s next

by Willow Aliento 2 July 20198 July 2019
Posted inPlanning

Sustainable density must use evidence and regulated design

by Deo Prasad, CRC for Low Carbon Living 24 June 201926 June 2019
Posted inPlanning

Save Our Suburbs rejects Posh Sydney label

by Tony Recsei, Save our Suburbs 18 June 201931 August 2021
light rail sydney
Posted inPlanning

A response to Posh Sydney: People want shared amenities close to transport

by Chris Johnson, NSW Urban Taskforce.  13 June 201917 June 2019
Lack of density in posh Sydney – it’s a thing
Posted inPlanning

Posh Sydney says No to density – it’s a thing

by Philip Bull, Dickson Rothschild 11 June 201931 August 2021
Posted inBriefs

The climate emergency and your property risk – finding out is now cheap or free

by The Fifth Estate 6 June 20197 June 2019
online tool to help urban planners drop the heat
Posted inArticles

An online tool to help urban planners drop the heat

by Georgia Roach 6 June 201913 June 2019
Posted inPlanning

ACT’s long, winding road ahead to a more sustainable future

by Poppy Johnston 28 May 20196 June 2019
Posted inPlanning

More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us

by Nicole Kalms, Monash University 28 May 201928 May 2019
Election over: Now here’s what we need to deliver greener, healthier, more liveable cities 
Posted inPlanning

Election over: Now here’s what we need to deliver greener, healthier, more liveable cities

by Shaun Walsh, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects 23 May 201923 May 2019
Becoming Indigenous: Future cities as a network of waterholes connected by Songlines
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Becoming Indigenous: Future cities as a network of waterholes connected by Songlines

by Steven Liaros, PolisPlan 22 May 20191 September 2021
Posted inPlanning

Dr Sharon Harwood – planning awards winner, with some strong First Nations thinking

by Poppy Johnston 21 May 201919 November 2019
Passers-by on the street and a wheelchair
Posted inSpinifex

Community Resilience: Engineers need new skills – lateral thinking and an understanding of human behaviour

by David Singleton 21 May 201921 May 2019
Anti Terrorism bollards
Posted inPlanning

Urban resilience needs to incorporate terrorism prevention

by Lukas Davis, University of Melbourne  9 May 201910 May 2019
Posted inPlanning

City of Melbourne gunning for car-lite CBD

by Poppy Johnston 2 May 20193 May 2019
Posted inPlanning

Don’t move the Powerhouse to Paramatta; build another museum

by Mike Brown 18 April 201930 April 2019
Posted inArticles

Tackling city making and the hierarchy of needs

by Tina Perinotto and Poppy Johnston 4 April 201923 April 2019
Posted inPlanning

Jeremy Gill: The truth about jobs of the future is that they are complex and need integrated land use

by Jeremy Gill, SGS Economics and Planning 4 April 201911 June 2019
Posted inPlanning

The city of the future is regenerative, circular and place-focused

by Steven Liaros, PolisPlan 4 April 20194 April 2019
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Why we need community in high-density development

by Richard Gibbs, Urbis 2 April 20195 April 2019

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