Annette Kroen is an urban and regional planner with expertise in outer suburban development, integrated land use and transport planning, community engagement, urban governance, and policy analysis.
Her research explores suburban growth areas, transport choice, social connectedness, and urban resilience and disaster risk reduction. Currently, Annette is working on projects investigating natural hazards and resilience in urban complex systems; integration of housing policy, planning, and disaster management; social connectedness in communities on the urban fringe; and the long-term impacts of place-making and innovation initiatives in a master-planned estate.
Annette is interested in research on the benefits of social infrastructure, communities in new suburbs, urban resilience. and active and public transport.
