Urban Planning

This submission canvasses the crisis in housing availability and affordability for essential workers in New South Wales.
Through the lens of mobilities, we outline useful lessons and insights from this example of a backpacker visa, which are relevant for future research and debates around rural livelihoods, labour migration, and farming communities.
This research examines the relationship of First Nations peoples in Australia to urban policy, and is designed to centre First Nations sovereignty, authority, knowledge, governance and agency as the starting point toward a more responsible relationship.
This report draws lessons from recent crises to provide a strategic framework for urban policymakers to bolster resilience against future shocks, including by promoting sustainability and driving inclusive growth.
Using seven medium-density housing developments in three New Zealand cities, we explore the relationship between medium-density and greenspace quality.
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets.
This report presents findings from interviews with organisations engaged in the production of accessible, small dwellings (between 45m2 and 75m2) in the mainstream housing stock.
Analysis demonstrates that when integrated with housing and transportation costs, it is possible to identify workforce distribution as a contributor to teacher shortages, and generate the data and evidence required by policy makers to set explicit policy goals and markers of success.