New Curtin University-led research has estimated that 1,454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Australian capital cities in the past 20 years because of fine particle air pollution from extreme events ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2024
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What would Goldilocks do if given the chance to pick the "just right" density for our cities? Depends who you ask.
Environment
Sep 1, 2023
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For almost a century, zoning has been the key tool used by urban planners to influence how our cities grow and change. Our newly published research looked at whether zoning is effective at guiding new urban growth patterns.
Environment
Jun 30, 2023
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Imagine a fleet of aging factories operating in neighborhoods across Australia.
Environment
Jun 16, 2023
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Did you know the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center logs the measurements of 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year—approximately 55 a day?
Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2023
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Experts are calling for planning policy to 'unbundle' parking spaces from apartments to reduce housing costs and alleviate street parking woes.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events.
Environment
Jan 17, 2023
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For all the vastness of our Outback and bush, most Australians live in urban areas. In cities, we live within an orderly landscape, molded and manufactured by us to suit our needs. But other species also live in this modified ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2022
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Australian cities are good at growing—for decades their states have relied on it. The need to house more people is used to justify expansion out and up, but it is the rates, taxes and duties that flow from land transfers ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2022
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In the popular Japanese TV series Old Enough, very young children are sent out into their neighborhood on their first solo errand. The release of this long-running series on Netflix this year created a buzz among Western ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2022
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