Our research shows decent homes could be lost – and the social and environmental costs of demolition should not be ignored.
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Our research shows decisions on the fate of public housing towers that are based on a proper process of considering all the evidence could go either way: demolish and rebuild, or retrofit.
Changing work habits and shifting environmental priorities demand new models of urban redevelopment. Architectural ‘exaptation’ uses the past to reimagine the future.
Shoplifting has been hyped as a driver of chain-store closures, but did these companies ever really understand urban environments in the first place?
Simply rezoning land for higher density is not enough to achieve the planning goal of transforming low-density and car-centric neighbourhoods into mixed-use and walkable neighbourhoods.
The goal of a ‘slum-free India’ would benefit residents of informal settlements more if the housing being built drew on the features of their old neighbourhoods that made their lives better.
A longtime critic of Atlanta’s BeltLine explains how the popular network of parks has increased inequality in the city and driven out lower-income residents.
Ageing brick apartment buildings of two to three storeys are being redeveloped in many suburbs. Typically, they are knocked down to be replaced by much bigger developments. But here’s an alternative.
Ad hoc, lot-by-lot efforts to house more people in our ageing suburbs are failing to increase liveability and sustainability. Our cities need strategic, precinct-scale regeneration.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Global Urban Development, University of Manchester
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Emeritus Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Urban Studies, Georgia State University
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Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Geographical Information Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Senior Researcher in Architecture & Urban Design
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Director of The Master of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, Blekinge Institute of Technology