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Cities are places of integration, intense population pressures, migration flows, cultural interactions and variations in socio-economic positioning and values. But what makes them liveable? Mick Tsikas/Reuters

October 27, 2015

Liveable cities: who decides what that means and how we achieve it?

Merridee L. Bailey, University of Adelaide; Amy Milka, University of Adelaide; Craig Lyons, University of Sydney; David Lemmings, University of Adelaide; Gordon Raeburn, The University of Melbourne; Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide; Roger Patulny, University of Wollongong, and Thomas Bristow, The University of Melbourne

A liveable city has become the highest form of praise we can give to a city space. But we need to discuss what that means and who gets to participate in the process of governing and shaping a city.

Literary critical terms and theories have been adopted by education institutions as a way to provoke thought on the relationship between humans and the environment. Thomas Bristow

May 30, 2013

Ecocriticism: environment, emotions and education

Thomas Bristow, University of New England and Grace Moore, The University of Melbourne

How can art and literature help us imagine a climate-changed world? In 1995, ecocritic Lawrence Buell argued that apocalypse is the single most powerful master metaphor that environmentalism has at its…

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