City Futures Research Centre Associate Director Professor Hal Pawson has been appointed as a Program Adviser for the National Housing Conference 2017, which will be held in Sydney later this year. Convened by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) in partnership with the NSW Department of Family and ...

Bill Randolph, CFRC Director, addresses the Committee for Economic Development of Australia seminar on Sydney 2030: Managing Sydney’s Growth, last Friday. Speaking after the NSW Planning Minister, Rob Stokes, and Greater Sydney Commissioner, Lucy Turnbull, Bill spoke on the implementation issues facing the new Commission in delivering the six new ...

City Futures Research Centre has been awarded the Planning Institute of Australia NSW award for research on‘Renewing the Compact City: Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment in a complex multi-stakeholder environment’.The 2016 Award for Planning Excellence was for the ‘Cutting Edge Research and Teaching’ category. The research ...

Congratulations to CFRC A/Prof Vivienne Milligan, honoured with the Nazha Saad Women’s High Achievement in Housing award at the July 2016 NSW Affordable Housing Conference. Named after the highly-respected former CEO of St George Community Housing (SGCH), the prize recognises Vivienne’s career-long contribution to housing in the guise of policymaker, ...

"New research on Australia's cities shows how disadvantage has shifted into our suburban areas, paralleling similar changes in European and North American cities. The “inner city” problem of the 1960s and 1970s has become the “suburban problem” in the 2000s. The paper by Bill Randolph and Andrew Tice (now at ...

Professor Susan Thompson, head of our City Wellbeing Program, is delighted to announce the creation of the new journal Cities & Health, of which she is a founding editor. Submissions are now open for the journal’s first issue, which is due to launch in early 2017. Cities & Health aims ...

One of our Senior Research Fellows, Dr Hazel Easthope, was selected by the University as one of UNSW Australia’s rising stars and emerging research leaders . Hazel is recognised for her work on higher density developments, a housing form that is rapidly growing in many Australian cities as well as ...

City Futures and Faculty Planning colleagues are celebrating our recent reconfirmation in Australia’s top rank for Urban and Regional Planning research . Repeating our 2012 score, UNSW was once again classed as five star ‘well above world standard’ in this discipline area under the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) three-yearly ...

CFRC will have a large hand in several 2016/17 housing research projects newly awarded. As part of a Swinburne University-led AHURI-funded study on private rental housing futures, the Centre’s Dr Chris Martin will lead an international review of recent institutional change and innovation in private rental markets. Meanwhile, Bill Randolph ...

Over 140 colleagues and friends from across the worlds of academia, business, government and not-for-profits joined us on 9 November 2015 to celebrate 10 years since CFRC’s foundation. Especially esteemed guests included the Hon Rob Stokes, NSW Planning Minister (keynote speaker), UNSW Vice Chancellor Ian Jacobs, Faculty Dean, Prof Alec ...