Essential workers a long way from home
People working in lower paid but highly essential services cannot afford to live near our city centres.
The North-South divide in smart city development
Smart cities continue to spread, but how is the North-South divide impacting development in the Global South?
Cities are on the frontline of climate change – prepare or perish
More than 800 million people could be affected by coastal flooding, how are cities adapting?
A tale of two megacities
Cities with affluent residents – and corresponding high consumption lifestyles, account for the largest carbon footprints.
AirTags and suburban retrofitting on The Future, This Week
This week: Apple’s AirTag release raises platform competition issues, and the trend of suburban retrofitting changes what suburbs are for.
Urban mobility on Corona Business Insights
It only takes sixty days to form a habit, so after nine months of people working from home, how is transport changing in our cities?
Changing cities on Corona Business Insights
How are cities changing and adapting during the pandemic? We talk with urban geographer Dr Dallas Rogers on how COVID-19 is reshaping urban areas.
Working from home a good and achievable idea after all
COVID-19 may have broken the resistance of many employers to working from home.
Reimagining Sydney: this is what needs to be done to make a Central City CBD work
Central City 2048 proposes one new rail line, three metro lines and almost 300,000 extra jobs for the new CBD, one of three proposed for metropolitan Sydney. Clearly, the investment needed is massive. Part two in this series by University of Sydney's Dr Tooran Alizadeh.
Re-imagining Sydney with 3 CBDs: how far off is a Parramatta CBD?
The Greater Sydney metropolis is envisaged as having three CBDs by mid-century, but an assessment of the proposed Central City around Parramatta shows how much work is needed to make that a reality.
Making small cities bigger will help better distribute Australia’s 25 million people
In the 70s, Whitlam tried to build new, big cities. But this was too costly. Now the most viable solution for Australia's population woes is to make existing cities bigger.
Aim for cities of all sizes to give everyone a fair go
Having cities of all sizes will increase people's choices of where to live and work.