News

7 October 2016

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, ...

2 September 2016

"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 ...

27 July 2016

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 ...

18 March 2016

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 ...

15 January 2016

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 ...

15 January 2016

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 ...

15 January 2016

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 ...

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15 January 2016

Good urban planning is essential to create environments that are healthy for humans and the planet, says Professor Susan Thompson, winner of the prestigious 2015 Sidney Luker Memorial Medal. Good urban planning can play a crucial role in creating environments that are healthy for humans as well as the planet, ...

23 September 2015

UNSW WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF MINISTER FOR CITIES AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

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22 September 2015

The Australian Financial Review's Tony Walker talks about Malcolm Turnbull's passion for cities and quotes UNSW Built Environment's Professor of Planning, Robert Freestone. Photograph courtesy of theaustralian.com.au. MINISTER ARRIVES WITH PASSION FOR SMART CITIES

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