The role of residential tree arrangement: A scoping review of energy efficiency in temperate to subtropical climate zones

M Rouhollahi, D Whaley, M Behrend, J Byrne… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant shift towards consolidating residential neighbourhoods has dramatically
influenced the Australian national urban tree canopy benchmark. Recurrent tree planting, in …

Potential residential tree arrangement to optimise dwelling energy efficiency

M Rouhollahi, D Whaley, J Byrne, J Boland - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy–efficient dwellings promote substantial urban energy conservation. Residential tree
allocation, as an Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation strategy, stimulates climate responsivity …

[HTML][HTML] Private-led land assembly and urban consolidation: The relative influence of regulatory zoning mechanisms

N McFarlane, J Hurley, QC Sun - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
From the time a city is first subdivided, its structure of lots act as a precursor to all future
redevelopment, forming the spatial bounds of land ownership that force buildings to develop …

Towards a Better Understanding of Compact Cities

S Anabtawi - Journal of Planning Literature, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Compact city policy applications are expanding rapidly worldwide, and so is research on the
topic. This review sampled 92 publications from the last 5 years mentioning this model in …

Compacting the city centre: densification in two Newcastles

B Giddings, RJ Rogerson - Buildings & Cities, 2021 - nrl.northumbria.ac.uk
Coherence of city form and consistency throughout the city centre are important objectives,
and great differences in density disturb this unity. The city centre is not a project, but a …

Perceptions of priority policy areas and interventions for urban sustainability in Polish municipalities: can Polish cities become smart, inclusive and green?

J Przywojska, A Podgórniak-Krzykacz, J Wiktorowicz - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The transition to sustainable urban development requires both appropriate city management
and local authorities that are aware of the implications posed by new urban sustainability …

[HTML][HTML] Optimising tree arrangement policy in Australian small-scale residential settings

M Rouhollahi, M Behrend, J Boland - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Tree canopy loss in residential zones is a current Australian planning challenge in
delivering liveable, heat–resilient urban developments. It is time for local governments to …

Decoupling growth from growth-dependent planning paradigms: contesting prevailing urban renewal futures in Sydney, Australia

S Pinnegar, B Randolph, L Troy - Urban policy and research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
With the population of Sydney expected to reach 7 million+ in the next 20 years, current
strategic planning policy is firmly growth oriented in its aims, and growth dependent in its …

Creating age-friendly cities: prioritizing interventions with Q-methodology

MT Atkins - International planning studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past two decades, the age-friendly city (AFC) movement has emerged as a policy
response to rapid population ageing and urbanization. Although AFCs have been …

Value switching: Extracting profit from the city

L Troy, B Randolph, S Pinnegar - Environment and Planning …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Land and property, and the wealth extracted from it, has reappeared as a central concern in
understanding the process of urbanisation under capitalism. Much of the academic …