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PRIME MINISTER PUTS BUILT ENVIRONMENT AT THE CENTRE OF HIS GOVERNMENT'S WORK image

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

25 June 2015

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Bernadette Pinnell awarded PhD - Congratulations! image

31 March 2015

Living in a Parallel Universe: Using a pragmatic realist evaluation framework to evaluate the socio-spatial impacts of public housing renewal programmes Public housing plays a central role in determining health and education outcomes as well as family stability and social wellbeing for low income households. However, since the 1980’s the …

Sian Thompson submitted MPhil thesis - Congratulations! image

19 March 2015

Weak ties and access to common space in high density residential areas The next decades will see a significant increase in high density development in strategic centres in Australian cities, if current city plans are put into practice. There is a need for research to address the social consequences of …

Lydia Kiroff awarded PhD - Congratulations! image

19 March 2015

The nexus between creative industries and the built environment: a case study of the auckland design cluster This study explores the role that Auckland’s design creative industries (architecture, specialised design and advertising) play in the transformation of the built environment and evaluates their contribution to the production of post-industrial urban …

Defining action to secure institutionally financed affordable housing image

12 March 2015

Efforts to engage institutional investment in rental housing provision were badly damaged by the 2014 termination of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS); yet lessons can be learned from the NRAS initiative and these should inform a successor program. Building on our major 2013 study , a newly-published City Futures …

City Futures and Leichhardt Council Win Planning Institute of Australia Award image

20 November 2014

City Futures and Leichhardt Council have been jointly awarded the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) award for a research report aimed at improving access for older residents and people with disabilities in their strata titled homes. The 2014 Planning Institute Australia Award for Planning Excellence (NSW) was awarded in the …

City Futures Research Centre has been jointly awarded the Planning Institute Australia Award (PIA)

13 November 2014

Written by Leichhardt Municipal Council on 6 November 2014 Leichhardt Council and City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Built Environment have been jointly awarded the Planning Institute Australia Award (PIA) for a research report aimed at improving access for older residents and people with disability in their homes. The 2014 Planning …

10 November 2014

UNSW Built Environment is celebrating the award of two prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants announced on November 5. Rob Freestone and Gethin Davison received an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant for their research examining the changing economic structure of the CBD, linking the changing form of the …

WANTED! People with disability living independently $50 for a one-hour interview image

11 September 2014

WANTED! People with disability living independently $50 for a one-hour interview In the next few years, reforms in the disability sector in Australia will allow many more people with disability to move out of their parents’ homes or shared supported accommodation, and live independently. Finding and sustaining housing that is …

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