Socioeconomic disadvantage and its impact on where we live and work (and how we get between the two), has enormous implications for health and well-being. But the picture is not as clear cut as many people…
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A new study sheds light on why natural spaces in cities can help keep us healthy. Researchers found that people living in neighbourhoods with a large amount of green space, such as parks or playing fields…
Apartment owners beware – your asset could be under threat! If we don’t improve the sustainability of our city apartment blocks their value will fall. Australian cities are increasingly embracing apartment…
Later this year Brad Hazzard, NSW Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, faces a difficult decision. Will he prepare new state planning legislation that prioritises a desired outcome: healthy, functional…
Isolation and loneliness pose an increasing threat to the health of Australians, many of whom are cut off from friends and locals by ill-conceived urban design, a report has warned. Social Cities, produced…
A prototype thermal system may have a big impact on the carbon footprint of buildings by pulling double duty as solar panels…
Non-communicable diseases – Billie Giles-Corti looks at how the built environment impacts the development of NCDs. Never before in human history have so many people been able to be so sedentary in the…
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Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Planning and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Regenerative Futures, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Sustainable and Climate Responsive Architecture, University of Pretoria
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
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Adjunct Associate Professor, South Western Sydney Local Health District
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Associate professor, Macquarie University
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Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director, CHETRE, UNSW
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Director of the Center for Community & Economic Development and Adjunct Faculty in Urban and Regional Planning Program, Michigan State University
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Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Nottingham Trent University