Built environment
Conference paper
Veggies in verges: a policy inventory for footpath food gardens across Greater Sydney
This case study examines attitudes of councils towards verge gardening in Greater Sydney. The research questions include: What are council attitudes towards edible plants in verge gardening? Are the policy approaches cautious and risk averse or explicitly aiming to reduce barriers?
Conference paper
Cities within a city in Sydney
This paper analyses the urban divide in Sydney from urban planning perspectives in the framework of critical philosophies by applying a qualitative research method of documents analysis and semi-structured interviews.
Conference paper
Playing it safe: co-designing safe, inclusive, sustainable and resilient future cities
This paper reports on a 3D printed tabletop board game that can be applied as a tool for co-designing resilient neighbourhoods and cities and on 'gamifying' the design of resilient cities to test markers of sustainability, community cohesion and disaster preparedness.
Conference paper
Developing an urban resilience framework for application in local government: a research-practice collaboration
This paper explores a partnership between university researchers and the City of Melbourne which sought to clarify the concept of urban resilience and make it applicable to the multi-sectoral work of local government.
Conference paper
Resilience and adaptation: urban manufacturing and cultural production in Melbourne’s gentrifying inner north
This paper focuses on interviews with urban manufacturers and cultural producers in Brunswick, a gentrifying suburb approximately six kilometres north of Melbourne’s central business district.