New centre for excellence on liveable, healthy cities
May 2014
The community has a right to reject change, including those which lead to increases in urban density, if planners do not figure out how to avoid negative unintended consequences in their policies, says Billie Giles-Corti, a founding member of a new $2.5 million Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Health, Liveable and Equitable cities.
Non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and mental illness, are on the rise, and our...
