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Meet the new seachangers: now it's younger Australians moving out of the big cities

News | 17/10/2018

Yes, a tsunami could hit Sydney – causing flooding and dangerous currents

8.5MW earthquake at the New Hebrides trench. Each frame of the animation represents a 2 minute time interval. This video below shows similar current speeds (7m/s based on video analysis) when the Japanese tsunami of 2011 arrived in the marina in...

News | 18/10/2018

How city squares can be public places of protest or centres of state control

, even Haussmann’s celebrated Parisian boulevards, built under Napoleon III in the 1860s, were designed to help quell the city’s rebellious populace. Read more: Australians don't loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial...

News | 08/10/2018

Ten lessons from cities that have risen to the affordable housing challenge

– 456,295 would need to be affordable, appropriately sized and located to meet most people’s needs. All too many will be bought as investments and remain vacant. Plan Melbourne doesn’t provide targets for affordability, size or location...

News | 05/10/2018

Ireland’s switch to EVs will reduce emissions – and tax revenues

0.7 percent of total sales, with 3,580 being the total stock of electric cars in Ireland. To understand the low uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) in Ireland despite a $AUD 8000 grant from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and an...

News | 28/09/2018

7 lessons for architects straight out of the inaugural FRONT event

into point number one, set aside time in your diary to maintain your business and make sure it grows. If you get too bogged down in the day to day you might be missing important opportunities and possible efficiencies. 7. Don’t let more than 40...

News | 05/09/2018

A community fix for the affordable housing crisis

– more than 10 percent of all housing in Britain. Local government now accounts for just 7 percent. Read more: Sensible reform to finance affordable housing deserves cross-party support Oona Goldsworthy, chief executive of the Bristol...

News | 24/09/2018

Ross Styles and the future of architecture

was quite circuitous to get there. I couldn’t go to university full-time but I was fortunate to get a scholarship at the NSW Government Architect’s Office, which was part of the Public Works Department at the time and had about 300...

News | 12/09/2018

Construction sector looking very healthy says CoreLogic report

second largest share by value (20 percent), with a median project value of $1.2million. The number of Australian construction projects entering the construction phase however, wasn’t so favourable, slipping 11 percent month-on-month in July, with...

News | 31/08/2018

How the housing boom has driven rising inequality

Peter Whiteford and Ross Gittins, argued the true picture is more complex. Read more: Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off We wish to point out one major flaw in the Productivity Commission’s...

News | 11/09/2018

Cycle, walk, drive or train? Weighing up the healthiest (and safest) ways to get around the city

News | 30/08/2018

Tokyo's heatwave suggests risky temperatures for the 2020 Olympics. Here's what the city can do

temperatures means this section is rated as extremely dangerous. The maps below illustrate the energy budget, which is the heat athlete’s bodies are projected to absorb during the race if it were to go ahead as planned, starting at 7:30am on August 9...

News | 23/08/2018

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We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city

Fabio Ongarato and Ronnen Goren celebrate 25 years of design

Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property

Flushing out the connection between design and functionality

Australia's dangerous fantasy: diverting population growth to the regions

Infrastructure splurge ignores smarter ways to keep growing cities moving

It's time for free public transport

We need to ‘get smart’ about how we design our cities, says Nick Deeks

Meet the new seachangers: now it's younger Australians moving out of the big cities

Yes, a tsunami could hit Sydney – causing flooding and dangerous currents

How city squares can be public places of protest or centres of state control

Ten lessons from cities that have risen to the affordable housing challenge

Ireland’s switch to EVs will reduce emissions – and tax revenues

7 lessons for architects straight out of the inaugural FRONT event

A community fix for the affordable housing crisis

Ross Styles and the future of architecture

Construction sector looking very healthy says CoreLogic report

How the housing boom has driven rising inequality

Cycle, walk, drive or train? Weighing up the healthiest (and safest) ways to get around the city

Tokyo's heatwave suggests risky temperatures for the 2020 Olympics. Here's what the city can do