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Sustainable Cities

The sustainability challenge of the 21st century will be won or lost in the cities. They are a nation’s key economic engines, demographic absorbers and resource consumers as well as a major locus for social opportunities and threats. How we manage cities thus becomes one of the major challenges for the future. The ISR’s Sustainable Cities research and teaching program is designed to provide policy makers, industry and the community with the knowledge and skills to meet this challenge. Towards this objective, research is focused on five broad thematic areas.

  • Managing urban growth and intensification: envisioning sustainable urban form and development; regenerating suburbia; creating new effective urban institutional processes
  • Meeting the challenges of housing and homelessness. Understanding housing market dynamics and the social and economic impacts of households and society; counting and countering homelessness, housing policy reform
  • Managing social and cultural complexity: understanding impacts of immigration and demographic change; integrating labour and housing markets; optimising service delivery ;enhancing social inclusion and social mix ; creating safe secure communities through community participation in policing and other relevant programs; responding to the specific insecurities of vulnerable groups or culturally distinct communities; working with the tensions in ethnic enclaves to build community while enhancing social inclusion in the broader community; community- centred educational renewal programs
  • Enhancing social and economic opportunity: with particular focus on new policies and programs to address, youth, refugees , culturally linguistically diverse groups and gender issues
  • Reducing environmental impacts of growth and development: identifying transition pathways in urban infrastructure and household consumption to reduce unsustainable ecological footprint of cities

Enquiries:

Professor Terry Burke ,
Phone (+61) 3 9214 8109
email: tburke at swin.edu.au

Professor Peter Newton
Phone (+61) 3 9214 4769
email: pnewton@swin.edu.au

 

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