Blog
17 May 2016
In this short piece of writing we are interested in the ways in which one globalising move — the appointment of the ‘visiting academic’ — disrupts and rearranges the temporal routines of academics’ everyday lives.
Blog
17 May 2016
When Europeans first saw Victoria’s native grasslands in the 1830s, they were struck by the vast beauty of the landscape, as well as its productive potential.
Blog
12 May 2016
This April, members of the CCR research program presented on the group and their research at a meeting of the Victorian Universities Rural and Regional Research Network hosted for the first time at RMIT.
Blog
09 May 2016
Building new residential communities is no mean feat. Building healthy new communities is an even greater challenge.
Blog
05 May 2016
This is an uninspiring budget for urban infrastructure.
Blog
01 May 2016
The Conversation’s academic experts look at the history of policies, whether they have been tried in Australia before, and how likely they are to succeed.
Blog
20 April 2016
Before the government considers company or personal income tax cuts, it should help the states replace property stamp duties with a broad based land tax argues the Australian Council of Social Service.
Blog
20 April 2016
In providing for the well-being of the next three million urban Australians, we need to take unvarnished stock of our situation.
Blog
14 April 2016
Greater recognition of the benefits of urban forests is focusing efforts from all levels of government to defend and improve them.
Blog
16 March 2016
Victoria’s Environmental Protection Authority has brought charges against four companies over the Hazelwood coal mine fire, which burned for 45 days in February and March 2014, blanketing the nearby town of Morwell in smoke.
Blog
16 March 2016
Significant urban policy and planning efforts have been directed at the problem of rising heat in cities.
Blog
07 March 2016
Since 1965 the per-capita annual consumption of chicken meat in Australia has increased ten-fold from 4.6 kilograms per person in 1965 to 44.6 kilograms in 2012.
Blog
04 March 2016
Melbourne’s population is expected to almost double by mid-century, overtaking Sydney as Australia’s biggest city.
Blog
04 March 2016
Combining water and architecture for sustainable living
Blog
03 March 2016
Improved public transport has long been a high priority among Victorian voters however; the recent announcement of the $1.6 billion project to remove nine level crossings between Caulfield and Dandenong has not been met with the expected enthusiasm.
Blog
03 March 2016
The Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-11 required a momentous recovery undertaking by the City of Christchurch in New Zealand. Five years on, what insight can we glean from the fallout?
Blog
26 February 2016
There is much confusion about the effects of Labor’s tax proposals with respect to investors in rental housing.
Blog
25 February 2016
The Australian tax debate has placed negative gearing under scrutiny.
Blog
23 February 2016
Tensions are rising in Melbourne over plans to use elevated rail to remove suburban level crossings.
Blog
08 February 2016
Summer brings out the heliophobe in many of us. It’s manageable if you live in a house that stays cool when shut up tight. It helps if you’re physically capable of crossing to the shadier side of a hot street.
Blog
27 January 2016
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign.
Blog
22 January 2016
Japan’s experience makes it an interesting example to learn from in the area of aged care.
Blog
18 December 2015
Failing to tap the rich local knowledge and diverse expertise of groups with an interest in planning the places most meaningful to them risks a failure of democracy.
Blog
09 March 2015
Research into the way cities do – or do not – work can make a critical contribution to urban policy and practice.
