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Housing locational disadvantages in Sydney
Khandakar Al Farid Uddin | January 12, 2021Plans to concentrate new housing in Western Sydney should be revised to ensure adequate additional infrastructure is provided and more diverse and equitable solutions are explored.
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Reducing corruption in construction will save lives
Ben Knight | December 5, 2020Tackling corruption could help alleviate the scale of crises and its impact on vulnerable people, says international construction management and economics expert Professor George Ofori.
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You can’t sit with us: the rise of privately-owned public spaces
Ben Knight | November 26, 2020The emergence of pseudo-public spaces raises fundamental questions about the value of people’s right to common ground.
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Concrete architecture: beauty or beast?
Ben Knight | November 23, 2020If you can look beyond the harsh exterior of brutalist architecture, you may find there is a little bit of beauty in buildings made of concrete.
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COVID-19 could accelerate the rise of smart cities
Victoria Tichá | November 13, 2020The dramatic changes to the workforce brought about by organisational responses to COVID-19 are only likely to accelerate the shift to smart cities, say experts at UNSW Sydney.
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Beware cost hikes in megaprojects
Open Forum | November 9, 2020A Grattan Institute report released today finds Australian governments spent A$34 billion, or 21%, more on transport projects completed since 2001 than they first told taxpayers they would. And as we enter the era of megaprojects in Australia, costs continue to blow out.
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The future of offices in post-COVID Melbourne
Piyush Tiwari | October 30, 2020As we work to get the economy and employment back on track, to what extent will workers return to offices and what could that mean for Melbourne’s CBD?
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Truck crashes demand better safety standards
Rachel Gray | October 22, 2020Relying on regulation through licensing alone will not combat unsafe trucking practices, says UNSW’s Dr Christopher Walker.
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On ‘yer cargo bike
Robbie Napper | October 22, 2020Sales of bikes have been booming, but as well as indulging our fantasies of riding in the Tour de France on a new sports machine, less glamorous cargo bikes can help people move packages and shopping.
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Learning from the West Gate Bridge collapse
Open Forum | October 18, 2020Fifty years after 35 men died in the West Gate Bridge disaster, not all of the lessons have been learned.
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A plan for social housing
Hal Pawson | October 10, 2020The Community Housing Industry Association’s Social Housing Acceleration and Renovation Program (SHARP) would deliver an extra 30,000 homes and renovate thousands more over four years.
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Food for thought
Ben Knight | October 1, 2020The time is ripe for bringing food production back into urban life through our use of public space.