Vienna’s experience provides a useful point of reference for reflecting on how social housing delivery might be accelerated in South Africa.
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Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
On May 15, 1938, Chaim Manne, his wife Leonora and their young son tried to escape Nazi Austria by gassing themselves. Leonora succeeded. Chaim’s ordeal was just beginning.
Director Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene were seduced by the enigmatic rubble-strewn city and harnessed its damaged post-war state to heighten the dark atmosphere of the story.
Fans attending Taylor Swift concerts should take reasonable precautions to ensure their safety while enjoying the experience.
Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.
Attacks in Austria and France mean that the UK is also on high alert.
The world’s “most liveable city” ranking is based on an index designed for companies sending their employees overseas. It’s not relevant to the average person.
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
Australia’s growing cities face a shortage of urban parks. Often, the provision of parks is seen only as planning compliance or an accessory.
The ‘pay to stay’ policy reveals great differences in the perception of what, and who, social housing is for.
Recent talks in Vienna may help end the Syrian civil war, but diplomacy will not eliminate ISIS.
The Paris atrocities came just as Assad’s military position was improving. Can the dictator harness international fury at Islamic State to strengthen his position in Syria?
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Distinguished Professor and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform, and Director, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
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Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
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Research Officer, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Pre-doctoral researcher, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of Iowa
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Former PhD student in Counter-Terrorism Security and the Built Environment, Loughborough University
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Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Senior scientist, TU Wien