Success in ARC Linkage Round
Results of the 2010 ARC Linkage grants have been released and City Futures Research Centre has won a $500,000+ grant to examine how urban environments support healthy living. This three-year grant is headed by Associate Prof Susan Thompson, with Prof Bill Randolph, Visiting Senior Research Fellow Dr Bruce Judd, and Prof Bin Jalaludin of UNSW’s Faculty of Medicine.
Our partners for this project will be Landcom, the NSW Government's land development agency, the National Heart Foundation of Australia and Sydney Southwest Area Health Authority. Over the next three years, the research team will track residents’ behaviours in five housing estates in order to identify how design features, social interventions and locational qualities manage and promote the national research priority area of healthy living. This multidisciplinary research will draw on our expertise in urban design and planning, healthy cities, and environmental health to describe the likely health outcomes for future Australians living in areas with similar characteristics and provide policy recommendations to facilitate these outcomes.
UrbanIT: Going to town on cityscapes
Jack Barton on the cool tools and techniques being offered to Australian city planners
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New City Futures Staff
The following staff have recently joined our Research Centre:
Presentations from 2009 Housing Researchers Conference
Presentations from Conference are now available
Choice Agenda
Dr Ilan Vizel and Ruth Fincher have published their article 'The Choice Agenda in Disability Housing Provision' in the
Housing Studies Journal
Seminar: ‘Life after the Deluge; Thinking about housing policy and housing research post the GFC’
CityFutures welcomes Professor Peter Williams as a Visiting Fellow from the UK. He will be presenting a seminar titled
‘Life after the Deluge; Thinking about housing policy and housing research post the GFC’ on Wednesday 9th September from 1pm in room 4037, Red Centre (West Wing), UNSW. Bookings are essential - please RSVP to Belinda Gunnell
Click here for more information about the seminar
AHURI Research Seminar - SA
Date(s): 18 Aug 2009
Time: 9:00 - 12:00
Location: The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
AHURI Research Seminars are free, public seminars that present the findings of current research and provide an opportunity to discuss these with the researchers.
This seminar will explore the findings of three AHURI projects:
Please RSVP to Damien Coup: damien.coup@ahuri.edu.au - 03 9660 2303
Spatial@gov
Dr John Barton will be presenting 'Integrating semantic information and geospatial systems' at the Spatial@gov conference in Canberra 15 & 16 June 2009.
Click here for more information about the conference
Free AHURI Research Seminar - NSW
On Thursday 21 May, AHURI will host a half-day seminar in association with Housing NSW.
Focusing on the housing of older Australians', the seminar will feature the following research:
AHURI Research Seminars are free, public seminars that present the findings of current research and provide an opportunity to discuss these with the researchers.
This seminar will be held at Doltone House, Pyrmont, 9:30am - 12:30pm
More information...
To attend this seminar, please RSVP to:
Position Available: Research Associate/Research Fellow
City Futures Research Centre is seeking a full-time researcher to join our expanding team. S/he will work closely with other Centre staff to undertake research across a range of housing, urban planning, design and policy-related research projects.
Our Centre is one of the leading university groups researching cities and urban policy in Australia. The post provides an excellent opportunity for a motivated researcher to join a prestigious research centre and to develop their conceptual, methodological and research management skills. In particular the Associate/Fellow will play a key role in work undertaken by the Centre on social housing reform, neighbourhood regeneration and Metropolitan planning and infrastructure issues. As such, an emerging track record in one or more of these areas, and knowledge of current housing reforms and Australian planning systems, would be highly desirable.
Now closed for applications
Edgar Liu joins City Futures
City Futures welcomes
Edgar Liu, whom joined our Centre as a Research Officer in April. Edgar previously worked as a Social Research and Information Officer at the not-for-profit organisation Western Sydney Regional Information and Research Service (WESTIR Ltd).
Notes now available from Julie Lawson's presentation
'What can we learn from international developments in social housing provision? Limited profit housing in Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands'.
City Futures Research Centre, UNSW and the Centre for Affordable Housing, Housing NSW hosted a successful seminar by Julie Lawson.
Click here to download seminar notes
SOAC 2009
SOAC 2009 will be held in Perth from 24-27 November, 2009 and co-hosted by the four public universities in WA - The University of Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University and Murdoch University. The Conference Co-chairs are Professor Roy Jones (Curtin) and Dr. Paul Maginn (UWA).
Please click on the link below to be directed to the official Conference website:
www.promaco.com.au/2009/soac
APAI PhD RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP 2009-2011
ARC LINKAGE GRANT – RESEARCH POSITION OPPORTUNITY
The Airport Metropolis: Managing the Interfaces
Expressions of interest are invited from appropriately qualified individuals for an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded PhD scholarship expected to be tenable in the City Futures Research Centre in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales from early 2009.
The research project addresses the multifaceted opportunities and conflicts arising from airport-driven development in metropolitan settings across four major dimensions: land use, economic development, infrastructure and governance (LP0775225). It is a multi-university project led by QUT Brisbane with several industry partners including three Australian airports. For further information see: www.airportmetropolis.qut.com
The successful candidate will work at UNSW on a thesis which examines the spatial evolution of airport-oriented urban development internationally with special reference to optimising the interrelationships between airport, local, regional, state and national planning frameworks.
Benefits of the position are:
- The award will be provided for three years of full-time study
- An annual, tax-free stipend in the order of $26,000
- Project funding support.
Applicants for this position must:
- hold a relevant degree (e.g., planning, urban studies, geography) of at least second class honours (upper division) or equivalent (e.g, significant research experience in industry)
- not have completed a PhD or its equivalent
- be prepared to commence early in 2009
Inquiries and expressions of interest:
Professor Robert Freestone
Planning and Urban Development Program
Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney 2052
Email: r.freestone@unsw.edu.au
Tel: 9385 4836
Are you a strata owner in NSW?
The survey on managing repairs & maintenance in residential strata has now closed. Findings from this research will be available in July 2009.
New Publications from City Futures
Innovation and the City: Challenges for the Built Environment Industry
S. Pinnegar, J. Marceau and B. Randolph,
City Futures Research Centre Issues Paper No. 7, July 2008
Preliminary Conference Announcement:
City Futures Research Centre and Swinburne University's Cities Housing and Environment Program will jointly host a combined Conference of Australasian Housing Researchers and the Asia Pacific Network of Housing Research Conference. The conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, 5th - 7th August 2009.
More information on conference theme and working sessions will be forthcoming shortly.
City Futures wins 3 ARC Grants
The value of the funding is $935,000 including partner cash contributions. The details of the three Resesearch Projects are as follow:
LP0989373 Governing the Compact City: The Role and Effectiveness of Strata Management in Higher Density Residnetial Developments
Collaborating/Partner Organisations:
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Institute of Strata Title Management Ltd
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Department of Lands
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NSW Office of Fair Trading
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Lannock Strata Finance
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Andreones Pty Ltd
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Macquarie Bank Ltd
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Owners Corporation Network Australia Inc
The research will deliver systematic information about the operation of the strata system that regulates the majority of residential higher density housing in Australia. It will assist strata residents and owners and those involved in strata management and policy development to better understand the nature and scale of issues facing the strata sector and its capacity to self‑manage these issues. It will therefore build an informed evidence base to support improved best practice and policy development across the sector. In addition, the research will make a major contribution to the emerging academic literature on local urban governance in higher density cities.
LP0990075 Implementing metropolitan planning strategies: taking into account local level housing
Collaborating/Partner Organisations:
This project will make a major contribution to our knowledge of contemporary urban change and will inform wider debates on the future of Australian cities. Providing planners and community stakeholders with a better understanding of housing demand at a local level, the research will assist in the implementation of metropolitan planning strategies, offering an effective framework that can incorporate affordability and social inclusion considerations. The research relates directly to the National Housing Supply Council's emerging agenda, which has identified the need to consider housing demand across a variety of spatial scales, and responds to the priority goal of strengthening Australia's social and economic fabric.
DP0986122 The Drivers and Outcomes of Re‑investment in Low Density Suburban Housing Markets
This project will make a major contribution to our knowledge of contemporary Australian urban change and will inform wider debates on the future of Australian cities. The project will explore the social and economic processed leading to reinvestment and renewal of older low density suburban housing and will offer insights into community‑level attitudes to housing built to higher environmental standards. This project will inform local and metropolitan planning processes related to sustainable suburban renewal and support policies that reduce community concerns and uncertainty over change, thereby contributing to the strengthening of the social fabric of our cities.
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