Increasing access to health data and more readily available analytical tools offer some opportunities to tackle the ever-growing rates of obesity. AAP/Dave Hunt By Alison Taylor, UNSW; Christopher Pettit, UNSW; Ori Gudes, UNSW, and Susan Thompson, UNSW A recent episode of ABC TV’s Ask the Doctor pointed to poor urban planning as a major culprit […]
Entries Tagged as 'Demographics'
With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
July 11th, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Data, Demographics, Wellbeing
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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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Contested spaces: living next door to Alice (and Anh and Abdullah)
March 14th, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Guest appearance, Housing, Wellbeing
How is apartment living changing the way we get to know our increasingly diverse neighbourhoods? from www.shutterstock.com Edgar Liu, UNSW; Christina Ho, University of Technology Sydney, and Hazel Easthope, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Ethnic conflict is on the rise in Australia, with regular reports of racist abuse in public spaces, including transport, streets […]
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Housing the dead: what happens when a city runs out of space?
January 9th, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics
By Kate Ryan, UNSW Australia and Christine Steinmetz, UNSW Australia Do you know where and how you want to be buried? Will you choose an elaborate Victorian-style headstone, or do you prefer a “green” burial, with only a GPS tracking signal indicating your location? Or you may elect to purchase a Bios Urn, a 100% biodegradable […]
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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
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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All aboard for the Bankstown corridor – or just the lucky few?
September 21st, 2016 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Cities, Construction, Demographics, Government, Housing supply, Public space, Transport, urban renewal
By Professor Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre. This is an extended version of an article published by The Conversation. It would be easy to assume that the new Sydney Metro Rail project will create something of an urban paradise along the new Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor through which it will run. […]
Population projection release should provoke questions: is this the future we want?
September 14th, 2016 · No Comments · Demographics
By Alison Taylor, Demographer, City Futures Research Centre. This week new projections for Local Government Areas in NSW were released by the Department of Planning and Environment. This release should again prompt us to urgently, but carefully, consider the type of future we want for ourselves and our children. Unfortunately, coverage of the release by […]
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Changes to strata management laws and home modifications
September 5th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Law, Strata, Wellbeing
by Ryan van den Nouwelant and Hazel Easthope, City Futures Research Centre The recently introduced reforms to strata scheme management have been wide-ranging. Some of the more headline grabbing changes include new by-laws about pets, parking and smoking, electronic voting and tenant participation. One reform that has not received as much attention is the change […]
Art, Literature and the Census
August 1st, 2016 · No Comments · Demographics
By Alison Taylor, Demographer, City Futures Research Centre. Did you know that the Census has inspired art works and literature? With the 2016 Census rapidly approaching (just 11 sleeps away, the ABS told me today 29 July), I’ve found myself wondering how did we get here? What is the history of the Census in Australia? […]
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