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Revitalizing city centres by making them more dense and mixed-use can help curb urban sprawl.
Vineyards, dairies, market gardens, orchards and oyster leases once dotted Sydney. Much – but not all – has been lost to developers.
Developers will always choose low-density suburbs at the edge of cities over more environmental alternatives.
There are many good reasons to reform zoning, but reducing the cost of housing is definitely not one of them. Other strategies are far more effective in achieving this goal.
Infill development is patchy across Australian cities, as is its quality. Bigger and better projects are needed to hit planning targets and reduce urban sprawl.
As Turkey is recovering from the most devastating earthquake in its recent history, a timely opportunity emerges to change how to reconstruct housing.
We accept the daily toll of road deaths and injuries as the price we pay to be able to drive everywhere, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
The way we develop urban peripheries is central to tackling both the housing crisis and the climate emergency.
Early in the pandemic, when there was much less traffic on the roads, people took to their bikes. But since then, fewer people are cycling, with rates now lower than in 2011.
Having a small backyard in outer suburban developments doesn’t make up for everything else that’s missing in these new neighbourhoods.
Inner-city resistance to higher-density housing has diverted most of Sydney’s population growth, driven largely by non-white migrants, to the outer suburbs. The result is a racially divided city.
Ontario has a unique opportunity to develop more effective public-private partnerships to accelerate the implementation of high-speed rail.
New Zealand’s Medium Density Residential Standards already didn’t go far enough. But by abandoning bipartisan support for them, National risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If the Earth were ever subsumed into a single cityscape, it would collapse under the weight of its own ecological footprint.
Urban expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need for daily mobility
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.
The 2022 election looms as the most important for Ontario’s environment in the modern era, and its impact may echo for generations to come.
Fewer weekly commutes means many will be willing to commute further. The effects on urban growth of working from home pose serious challenges.
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
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Associate Professor in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow in Restoration Ecology, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of Florida
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Finance Policy, Tulane University
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Architecture, The University of Western Australia