Image: paul/Flickr, CC BY By Laura Crommelin, Chris Martin and Laurence Troy, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Airbnb and other short-term letting websites have been a hot topic of debate for some time. In New South Wales, it seems the state government is on […]
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Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
June 6th, 2018 · No Comments · Airbnb, Cities, Data, Housing, Housing supply, Law, Sharing, Sydney
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Homelessness: Australia’s shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
May 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Sydney
By Hal Pawson, UNSW and Cameron Parsell, The University of Queensland. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Exactly a decade ago in 2008, the Australian government committed to an ambitious strategy to halve national homelessness by 2020. Through stepped-up early intervention, better homelessness services and an expanded supply of affordable housing, […]
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Zoning: impost, or necessary urban management?
May 14th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Economy, Housing
By Greg Paine, City Futures Research Centre. City Futures Research Centre and the Henry Halloran Trust recently hosted a seminar to review a Reserve Bank Australia discussion paper on zoning and house prices (see the video, and the CityBlog summary). It was well-attended (the issue strikes a chord), and conducted in the best traditions of […]
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Grappling with housing disruption: how should planners respond to Airbnb?
May 1st, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Economy, Government, Housing, Sydney
By Laura Crommelin. This article originally appeared in New Planner – the journal of the New South Wales planning profession – published by the Planning Institute of Australia. The explosive growth of digital short-term letting platform Airbnb poses plenty of challenges for planners, with the impact being felt across both urban and regional areas. But what exactly is the […]
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Housing: New Reapolitik Needs a New Real Economics
March 22nd, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Economy, Government, Housing, Productivity
By Duncan Maclennan, Laura Crommelin, Ryan van den Nouwelant, Hal Pawson. Originally published on John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. Managing the pressured housing markets of cities such as Sydney and Melbourne poses a major challenge to governments at both state and Federal levels. As has become increasingly clear, such trajectories are wreaking serious damage for younger […]
New cities? It’s an idea worth thinking about for Australia
March 19th, 2018 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Guest appearance, Regions, Transport
Benjamen Gussen’s proposal for a ‘charter city’ in the Pilbara stimulated this imaginary depiction. Justin Bolleter, Author provided By Robert Freestone, UNSW; Elizabeth Taylor, RMIT University, and Julian Bolleter, University of Western Australia. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Is there a case for revisiting the idea of new cities for […]
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Pitch it Clever – salient visual clues in way-finding
February 22nd, 2018 · No Comments · Cities, Public space
By Aida Afrooz, City Futures Research Centre. Universities Australia’s Pitch it Clever competition challenges researchers to talk about their research in a video of no more than 2 minutes. Pitching it clever, I narrate my research story in this short video about ‘Salient Visual Clues in Way-finding’. If you don’t know what that is now, watch the video […]
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Geodesign and the difficulty of working (planning) together
February 8th, 2018 · No Comments · Cities, Data
By Carmela Ticzon, City Futures Research Centre. Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) recognises that places and spaces are complex and multilayered. Cities are systems composed of interlinking environmental, social, and economic dimensions, and the interdependencies of their subsystems make it impossible to make changes in one without causing flow-on effects on the others. It makes sense, […]
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They know where you go: dockless bike sharing looms as the next disruptor – if key concerns are fixed
December 7th, 2017 · No Comments · Bikes, Cities, Data, Transport
By Christopher Pettit, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Dr Simone Z. Leao created the Bicycling Dashboard shown in this article. Beyond the benefits of dockless bike sharing for people’s mobility and health, these services are producing an ever more useful byproduct: journey data. Mapped through global positioning system […]
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Vanguarding Newcastle
November 23rd, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Guest appearance, Public space, urban renewal
By Dr Ori Gudes, Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, Emily Davies O’Sullivan, Willana Urban, Newcastle, and Associate Professor M. Hank Haeusler, Computational Design, UNSW. Earlier this month 50 rising urban planners and leaders from cities across the globe converged in Newcastle, NSW, for Vanguard Australia. Organised by NextCityOrg, this was the first of […]
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