Sydney
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Sydney's Chinatown in the Asian Century
Sydney’s Chinatown is currently in transition. Asia-led globalisation in the past few decades has intensified flows of people, commodities and financial resources across the Asia-Pacific region, and this has brought significant challenges and opportunities to Chinatown. Given the major developments at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), on Broadway and at Darling Harbour, Sydney’s Chinatown...
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Feasibility of algae building technology in Sydney
This study evaluates the technological, economic, environmental, regulatory and social feasibility of adopting algae building technology in Sydney NSW Australia as a source of renewable energy. Interview with 23 stakeholders in the built environment illustrate the drivers and challenges associated with such technology.
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Housing affordability, central city economic productivity and the lower income labour market
Research Objectives The objective of this research was to establish whether the diminishing supply of affordable housing options for lower income (LI) workers near job-rich central city (CC) locations is having an impact on CC businesses and on the overall productivity of CC economies.
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Open access policy analysis and visualisation
This report documents the establishment of the beginnings of an open access data system that would enable analysis and visualization of headline indicators for the Australian housing market and policy space.
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Methamphetamine in Sydney: perspectives from DUMA police detainees
Introduction Methamphetamine is of national concern, but what does this statement mean to frontline police officers? In real terms it means that frontline police are required, on an increasingly frequent basis, to engage with methamphetamine users. This presents a number of challenges to police. First, methamphetamine intoxication and withdrawal can impede an individual’s ability to...