Urban planning
Alternative labels
Urban policy
Urban design
City planning
Urban development
Urban areas
Journal article
Ambivalent urban sustainability transitions: Insights from Brisbane's building sector
Cities are suggested as being the key level for shifts towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption. The building sector with its significant carbon footprint plays an important role in urban climate change adaptation strategies. Using the case study of Brisbane (Australia), the paper examines the place-specific contextualisation of green building transitions by analysing...
Discussion paper
Does tenure mix work?
Tenure mix has been put forward as a way to break up concentrations of poverty. But how effective is it as a tool to achieve better individual and neighbourhood outcomes?
Report
Urban climate action impacts framework
This report presents evidences that urban stakeholders need to guide and make the case for climate action.
Policy report
Future cities: planning for our growing population
This is the fifth paper in Infrastructure Australia's Reform Series. It provides advice to Australian governments on improving the productivity and liveability of our largest cities as they grow over the next thirty years.
Infographic
Water’s role in liveability
Water's role in liveability: Heat, Waterways and Urban Amenity