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The rapid growth of our capital cities is creating all sorts of problems. Dispersing growth across regional city networks could ease these growth pains and make our cities more sustainable.
Ethiopia’s urban projects are often portrayed as beneficial to all residents – but this glosses over their highly uneven impact.
Better urban planning can help stem the loss of birds by protecting and connecting the areas of habitat they need to survive.
New research underscores the need to counter the effects of urban growth on drought by ensuring cities have enough green spaces to keep them liveable.
New Zealand cities grow mostly through building houses on undeveloped land. But this removes fertile soil and undermines the food production and other ecological functions city dwellers depend on.
Urban populations are diverse, and certain neighbourhoods or subgroups may be disproportionately affected by poor birth outcomes.
Quite how to gauge the size of a city – or where one ends and the next begins – is getting harder to determine. The 21st century belongs to the limitless city.
Growing fresh produce on the outskirts of a city reduces food miles and increases food security. But the foodbowls next to our our big cities are fast losing their land to urban growth.
Before the pandemic, our cities had a simple plan: let population growth drive economic activity. But the world is changing and the perpetual growth mindset has to change with it.
Australia’s big cities have grown rapidly and strains are showing. Yet the state of the urban environment has been rated good and stable due to local and state responses to these challenges.
Master planning has served the entwining interests and ambitions of international as well as local actors in Africa.
Helping more city-dwellers to grow their own fruit and veg could improve health, wellbeing and food security for growing populations.
The ‘exodus’ from capital cities amounts to 0.06% of their populations – similar to recent years – and people are still moving to the cities. What’s missing is growth driven by international migrants.
Australia lacks a coherent national approach to planning where settlement and growth happens. It’s time to take stock of our cities and regions and work together to improve outcomes across the nation.
The demands on land and resources from our fast-growing cities are unsustainable, as are the wastes they produce. Yet still our leaders act as if unlimited growth is possible.
Other countries are planning new cities using technological innovation to achieve more sustainable development. Such plans aren’t new for Australia, but existing city growth is the focus of attention.
Pacific island nations are often framed as remote atolls facing rising seas and cyclones. But their cities are growing fast, so are efforts to help the most climate-vulnerable people hitting the mark?
The focus on roads reflects the fact that this infrastructure program lags well behind the growth of our biggest cities, resulting in less-than-ideal transport patterns.
Population growth has pros and cons, and the Morrison government’s plan is less about a change in immigration numbers than about increasing the benefits and minimising the costs.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of School of Landscape Architecture and Senior Lecturer in Landscape Planning, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Professor and Director of Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Strategic Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Associate Professor in Planning, University of Queensland, University of Sydney
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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