Cities and towns
Conference paper
The tide is high: evaluating climate change adaptation and disaster resilience at the local level
This paper reviews the institutional context of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts in addressing urban resilience to climate-related disasters.
Conference paper
Socially healthy ageing: the importance of third places, soft edges and walkable neighbourhoods
This paper discusses the impacts of physical neighbourhood environments on the social life — a component of social health — of older people. The research is focused on where, in the neighbourhood, the social life of older people takes place.
Conference paper
Testing community resilience to the introduction of poker machines
This study analyses data collected on community wellbeing before and after the introduction of poker machines in a the City of Whittlesea, Victoria.
Conference paper
Making health a planning priority: how was health framed in the review of the NSW planning system?
This paper provides novel insights as to how a review of planning legislation was influenced to consider health as a primary planning issue, and how health might be connected to other substantive issues in planning legislation and systems.
Conference paper
Time poor, health poor? Travel-related time poverty and resident health in a greenfield master-planned estate
Master-planned estates (MPEs) on edges of cities are a major source of new housing in Australia. Concerns about limited local services and amenities and negative impacts on resident health have contributed to changes in design of some MPEs.