Vienna knocked Melbourne out of its seven-year-long top spot as the ‘world’s most liveable city’. From shutterstock.com
By Julianna Rozek, RMIT University; Billie Giles-Corti, RMIT University, and Lucy Gunn, RMIT University
August 2018
Melbourne lost its “most liveable city” title yesterday and is...
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...
December 2015
The 2018 Commonwealth Games village and the evolution of TODs
Urban planners and developers around the world are keeping a close eye on the 2018 Commonwealth Games village – currently under construction on the Gold Coast – and not...
September 2015
Cars are making our cities unliveable. Traffic congestion, pollution, accidents and parking make us stressed, unhealthy and unproductive. Yet, far from diminishing, our fascination with cars is getting a shot in the arm with the driverless car. It...
February 2015
The City of Sydney has embarked on an ambitious project to establish a farm in Sydney Park, a 40-hectare green space in the inner city suburb of St Peters, about 7kms from the CBD.
The city council’s decision to...
November 2014
Building apartments for families is not for the faint-hearted, but Melbourne developers, Marcus Lyon and Paul Bell, are taking on the challenge.
The project on Brunswick Group’s drawing board, inching its way through the approvals process, is a complex of...
