The rapid growth of our capital cities is creating all sorts of problems. Dispersing growth across regional city networks could ease these growth pains and make our cities more sustainable.
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Director, UWA Public Policy Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Population Geography, Adelaide University
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Professor in Demography, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Sustainability Science, La Trobe University