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Urban planning

May 2024

  • Australian federal police commissioner Reece Kershaw

    Australia news live
    AFP concerned about youth radicalisation, Senate estimates hears – as it happened

    This blog is now closed

April 2024

  • Cracked concrete road in Christowel Street, Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia

    ‘Tone deaf’: Melbourne council criticised over plans to restore ‘heritage’ concrete roads

  • Satellite view of Sydney at night.

    Sydney’s urban sprawl grew along rail lines similar to way cancer spreads, researchers say

March 2024

  • An aerial view of the Brickpit ring walk at Sydney Olympic Park

    Reported plan to move Sydney’s Rosehill racecourse to endangered bell frog habitat surprises conservationists

  • Illustration for Celina Ribeiro on Small Big Houses

    Homes on steroids: how Australia came to build some of the biggest houses on Earth

February 2024

  • Laura Sheather and her children (from left) Matilda, Beatrix and Clancy outside their home in Caboolture, north of Brisbane

    The rural network
    ‘There’s no way to get home’: the public transport deserts on Brisbane’s northern fringe

  • A map of Sydney showing areas in the west getting younger and inner city areas growing older

    Australian datablog
    Australian cities hollow out as younger families move out and inner suburbs get older

  • An aerial image shows the Sydney suburb of Dover Heights

    Sydney risks becoming ‘city with no grandchildren’ as housing costs push out families, expert warns

  • Colourful art deco apartments on a street in Bondi Beach in Sydney

    Art deco density: what we learned from Australia’s first apartment boom

January 2024

  • Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud in Sydney

    Home truths: TV’s Kevin McCloud thinks Australia should stop building such big houses

    The Grand Designs presenter on how the yimby mantra and infill development can solve the housing shortage
  • A lone vehicle in a car park viewed from the air

    Parking apps lock in the status quo. To reimagine Australia’s cities, we must think beyond them

    Julia Powles
    The financial, privacy and access implications of adopting this technology must be fully assessed
  • Overhead view of a housing development outside Warwick

    The rural network
    ‘It’s slipped off the radar’: why are there fewer street trees in regional towns across Australia?

    Beyond the tree-lined high streets, many regional towns are lacking tree cover and experts say the reliance on cars could be to blame

November 2023

  • Signage for the Rozelle Interchange in Sydney, NSW

    ‘It will get better’: NSW government to fix confusing Rozelle Interchange signs after traffic chaos

    Premier Chris Minns rules out introducing a toll-free period for those adjusting to the new ‘spaghetti junction’
  • underground road tunnel

    Westconnex: a $20bn money pit or a bold plan for Sydney’s future? Experts remain divided

    Drivers can now travel from the Blue Mountains to the Sydney Harbour Bridge without passing a traffic light, but at what cost?
  • Trains are seen at the end of the line at Central Station in Sydney

    Crowd-sourced project to map NSW’s ‘creepy’ and ‘safe’ spots in bid to improve women’s safety

    Your Ground project asks participants to identify public places where they feel safe or unsafe with responses to inform policy and planning

October 2023

  • Plane trees in Surry Hills. The City of Sydney has decided to stop planting Plane trees across the city in an effort to line the streets with more drought tolerant plants.

    Sydney turns over a new leaf and says goodbye to much-maligned plane trees

  • A view of the Essendon Bomber's training facility, an indoor hanger covered in artificial turf.

    Rolled up: is synthetic turf on Australian sports fields worth the environmental risk?

  • woman in granny flat

    Granny flats are an untapped resource to relieve Australia’s housing crisis, report says

  • Committee for Sydney’s artistic render of a car-free Enmore Road, with pedestrians and market stalls

    Car-free days: new push to open up Sydney’s high streets and let festival culture prosper

September 2023

  • Rodney Ali

    ‘Bottom of the food chain’: e-scooter riders push for reimagining of Australia’s bike lanes

    A new transport hierarchy is being negotiated in our cities, leading to friction on footpaths and bickering in bike lanes. Is there a better way?
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