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We are still settling Australian cities on unceded Aboriginal lands. With the global agreement on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, development has finally come home to the developed world.
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The question of which city is the most liveable is an annual hot topic. Competition is fierce, especially between Melbourne and Sydney.
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Past Events
10 September 2018, 5:30PM-7:30PM
Join us for this informal networking event hosted by the Planning Institute of Australia for the presentation of A Scorecard and Priority Recommendations for Melbourne – a new report measuring Melbourne’s true liveability progress.
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News
The new community initiative Gardens for Wildlife, based on RMIT research, will serve as a role-model across Victoria to encourage gardening to support local wildlife.
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In our recent paper, we ponder whether the increasingly prevalent trend for framing nature in terms of ecosystem services is actually helping to build public engagement in conservation.
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Why we should be challenging the status quo to increase the role and effectiveness of the building and planning system in delivering sustainable cities
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How is movement and place represented across Melbourne’s tram network?
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Finding ways to conserve and protect heritage assets on privately owned and managed property is an ongoing challenge for policy makers.
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Current Projects
This study will generate evidence on the key health enhancing design requirements that should be entrenched in the new Design WA Apartment Design Guidelines.
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Current Projects
The project aims to investigate the representation of histories and cultures of migrants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the National Library and select state library collections.
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Current Projects
Understanding prevalence and demography of long-term energy hardship via analysis of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics longitudinal dataset.
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Current Projects
The project will produce evidence and tools to assist both the public and private sectors provide transport options to residents of Melbourne’s new suburbs as soon as they move in.
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Current Projects
The RMIT Urban Observatory is a portal currently under development at RMIT that enables policy makers, planners and members of the general community to access a wide range of indicators relating to the built environment.
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Current Projects
Ethnographic household research to inform future electricity pricing strategies an infrastructure planning in Victoria.
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Current Projects
This project investigates the impacts on the lived experience of people in major Australian cities, focusing on the effects of land-use, diffuse air pollution, transport, urban heat and the interconnections between them.
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Current Projects
This project aims to establish a network of integrated urban greening study sites to understand, quantify and qualify the multiple benefits of urban greening, including for biodiversity outcomes and for human health and wellbeing.
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