Cities face increasing environmental, social and economic challenges that together threaten
the resilience of urban areas and the residents who live and work there. These challenges …

While it is well recognised that increasing vegetation cover reduces the Urban Heat Island
(UHI) effect in cities, less is understood about the spatial pattern of vegetation type required …

By identifying a unified aim of Federal, State, and Local government authorities to deliver
healthier, more liveable urban spaces and enable walkable neighbourhoods in Melbourne …

This article advances understandings of Melbourne's dramatic vertical expansion over the
last decade by attending to the political economies of its high-rise housing development …

Built environments are key spaces for social and economic activities. They are critical
sources of greenhouse gas emissions and will be important locations for adaptation to …

This paper examines the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative in
Melbourne and frames this as an experiment in urban resilience governance and planning …

Framed in the concept of distributional justice, retrofit poverty may be understood as the
inequality of opportunity to improve the energy performance of the home. Retrofitting existing …

The profession of urban planning contributes to the design and spatial arrangement of cities,
and has been recognized as a key potential facilitator of action on climate change. Yet, there …

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Condominium and
comparable legal architectures make vertical urban growth possible, but do we really …

The pursuit of 20-minute neighbourhoods has been recently combined with calls for “density
done well”. However, this catch-phrase is not well defined in planning policy and there is …