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The mechanisms are there - but where’s the evidence?
Everyone has experienced it. Striding along in a purposeful hurry, your progress is thwarted by a slow-moving pedestrian, dawdling along the pavement. Perhaps they’re talking into their mobile phone, looking…
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
Mesa, Arizona: a place with wide streets and narrow minds. Or so goes a once popular saying about this traditionally laid-back, conservative community that came into official existence in 1883 as a Mormon…
The strength of Australia’s economy depends on how well our cities function - yet right now, it’s as if we’re driving with the handbrake on. Cities are crucial to productivity. When they work well, they…
The national debate about Australia’s population has been hijacked. It has been dominated by fears that we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with an influx of people, and differing views about migrants…
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
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Professor, Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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University of Manchester
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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University of Manchester
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Design and Policy | Urban welfare researcher, York University, Canada
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Professeur agrégé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Lecturer, Management Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader, Anglia Ruskin University
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Director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen