Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) 2023 National Awards Success
Elle Davidson and the Zion Engagement and Planning team took out the National PIA Award for Planning with Country. The judges were impressed with this comprehensive bespoke built environment industry training fit for a wide range of organisations. The highly praised training is designed to occur over a three-month period, so people have the time to …
New ‘The Conversation’ piece on the infrastructure-led planning of Australia’s newest city
Have a read of this new The Conversation piece by A/Prof Tooran Alizadeh, A/Prof Glen Searle and Dr Rebecca Clements on the massive project is unfolding in Sydney’s Western Parkland region. The building of a new city from the ground up is central to an infrastructure-led restructuring of metropolitan Sydney. The catalysts are the Western Sydney …
Urban podcast bringing ideas out of university and into public debate
The City Road Podcast is at the centre of a network of public conversation and academic research conducted by Associate Professor Dallas Rogers. From producing for ABC National Radio to the upcoming Festival of Urbanism, Rogers’ work provides a template for making public impact. “I’ve had a long interest in the public engagement side of …
Big Urban Data and Remote Sensing Applications: Urban Science Lab @ Sydney Special Seminar
The Urban Science Lab @ Sydney presents two special lectures on Big Urban Data and Remote Sensing Applications from Dr Arnab Jana and Dr Eswar Rajasekaran, visiting researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. These talks are hosted as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG) grant awarded by the DVCR, University …
Speaker: Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
On the Frontier of Party-state Capitalism: Hong Kong, Guangdong & The Making of the Greater Bay Area Sign up here Description When: Tuesday 16 May 6:00pm, 2023 Speaker: Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia China’s Greater Bay Area, comprising nine of Guangdong’s cities and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, is one of the world’s most …
New Infrastructure Governance Podcast Series
Join us for a series of conversations about transforming infrastructure governance. Our shared futures and community well-being are shaped by urban infrastructure such as for transport, green space, water, social, and digital services. While many public discussions revolve around which infrastructure projects should be prioritised, there is growing recognition that questions of governance are critical to …
Urban Housing Lab responds to proposed Housing SEPP
Members of the Urban Housing Lab, Professor Nicole Gurran, and Drs Caitlin Buckle, Catherine Gilbert, Pranita Shrestha and Zahra Nasreen have responded to the NSW Government proposed Housing SEPP, up for submissions until the 29th August 2021. This submission builds on a previous submission for the renamed Diverse Housing SEPP. You can read the full …
Upcoming Event: COVID-19 in India and Nepal
The event aims to create awareness and feature local, grassroot level responses to COVID-19 in order to open avenues to share ideas, engage, provide technical expertise, support or resources especially for students and professionals in India and Nepal and those abroad who are separated from loved ones at home through lockdowns and border closures. This …
Urban Housing Lab 2020 Highlights
See the highlights of 2020 from the Urban Housing Lab. Despite the challenges of remote teaching; home schooling; social isolation; and separation from overseas and interstate family, Urban Housing Lab researchers continued to produce important work and contribute to wider policy development and public debate – Housing Lab Co-Founder Professor Nicole Gurran
Call for Papers – Sessions run by Co-Lab members at the Joint IAG/NZGS Conference
Urban Co-Labs members Dr Sophia Maalsen, Dr Dallas Rogers and Dr Caitlin Buckle are running sessions for the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society combined Conference to be held at the University of Sydney from 6–9 July, 2021. Sessions titles and details are below: Disrupting Housing: digitalization and innovations in housing Sophia …