By Sue Holliday, Built Environment, UNSW Sydney. Originally published by The Fifth Estate. There is a growing cacophony of calls for a national settlement strategy. What does that mean? Are we all over the exhaustion of daily congestion? Are we fed up with promises of infrastructure that fails to catch up with the growth of […]
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What we need for a national settlement strategy that works
October 19th, 2018 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Migration, Planning, Regions
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Higher density and diversity: apartments are Australia at its most multicultural
June 19th, 2018 · No Comments · Demographics, Guest appearance, Housing, Migration, Strata, Sydney
Image: Marcus Jaaske/Shutterstock By Christina Ho, University of Technology Sydney; Edgar Liu, UNSW, and Hazel Easthope, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Increasing numbers of city dwellers live in apartments. This is particularly the case for migrants. And that makes apartment buildings important hubs of multiculturalism in our cities. However, […]
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Harnessing Big Data in Challenging Urban Contexts
August 9th, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Data, Guest appearance, Law, Migration, Sustainability, Transport
Harnessing big data in an urban context is the “grand challenge.” Image: AIG By Laura Bruce, Built Environment, UNSW Sydney. On July 21st 2017 academics and public sector representatives met to discuss the challenge of harnessing big data in the urban context in order to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event was hosted […]
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Overturning perceptions: migration, renewal and the new Western City
May 31st, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Demographics, Migration, Sydney
Next Monday 5 June Blacktown City Council will host a City Futures seminar, Overturning perceptions: migration, renewal and the new Western City. If you’re involved in migrant services, community development or social planning – or just interested in migrant experiences of Sydney – please come along to this free event (register here). The seminar will […]
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New to Australia? Good luck! Migrants can no longer afford ‘gateway’ suburbs
May 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Demographics, Guest appearance, Housing, Migration, Sydney, Wellbeing
Jack Wright/flickr, CC BY-NC By Hazel Easthope, UNSW and Wendy Stone, Swinburne University of Technology. Originally published on The Conversation. The concentration of disadvantaged people in certain parts of cities is almost always seen as undesirable by urban researchers and policymakers. But is this always the case? Our research demonstrates that it isn’t. Concentrations of people […]
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Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
November 28th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Housing, Migration, Planning
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article (co-written with with Dr Hazel Easthope) here. We’ve all seen it in the movies: overgrown “kidults” living at home while their parents pick up their dirty laundry, cook their meals and vacuum around their unmade bed. This narrow portrayal of what modern-day multigenerational households […]
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The working holiday survives hard times
May 16th, 2016 · No Comments · Demographics, Migration, Transport
By Alison Taylor, Demographer and Research Analyst, City Futures Research Centre ‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page’ – St Augustine As our winter and the northern hemisphere summer holidays approach, Australians’ love of travel comes to the fore – I’m packing my bag right now! For […]
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