Urban planning
Alternative labels
Urban policy
Urban design
City planning
Urban development
Urban areas
Conference paper
Migrant knowledge workers in global Melbourne: where do they live and where do they work?
This paper analyses the spatial distribution of migrant knowledge workers in their place of work and place of residence to identify the different patterns between international and internal migrant knowledge workers.
Conference paper
Exploring the relationship between Melbourne's water metabolism and urban characteristics
Cities can be seen as complex urban systems that mobilise local and global resource flows to meet the needs of their inhabitants and their manufacturing sector. However, the local consumption of resources can be responsible for major local and global environmental changes that impact the human health and wellbeing inside and outside of the boundary...
Conference paper
The Role of Political and Financial Factors in the Provision of Parks: The Case of Logan City, Queensland
Researchers have found that open space provision (e.g. parkland) is vitally important for meeting the social, economic and environmental needs of urban populations globally. The international literature on park provision identifies many factors that influence a local government’s ability to provide adequate parkland including political agendas, governance tools and resources.
Conference paper
Don't fence me in: Understanding local government decisions to allocate and fence public open space for dogs in Melbourne, Australia
This study examines the rationales of key actors in local government in making decisions about fencing public open spaces for dogs and builds an overarching understanding of how different councils allocate public open space for dogs.
Conference paper
Practicing sustainability: Lessons from a sustainable cohousing community
Recent scholarship has conceptualised initiatives at the grassroots level as niche sites of innovation for sustainable development, comprising a diversity of innovations and sustainable practices that may (or may not) be usefully transferred to mainstream systems (Seyfang & Smith 2007). Sustainable housing communities such as cohousing and eco-villages, based around goals of improved sustainability and...