Deep Timetable: A Noongar Rail History
The Project will advance a new relational logic and a history that enhances the capacity of regional planning and development authorities in their future relationship with Indigenous people.
More than a reserve? Understanding the benefits of privately protected areas
This project will generate evidence on the diverse influences that privately protected areas can have on both nature and people.
Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities
Global data for local impact: measuring what matters for healthy and sustainable cities
Empowering women primary carers: Promoting heat resilient systems for families
This project examines and maps the needs, impacts, and constraints faced by women with young children, as well as the opportunities to enhance their family’s health during heat events.
Packed like sardines: Impacts of the apartment boom on public transport in Australian cities
This project is investigating the impacts of high-density housing on public transport use and service provision to directly inform policy and practice for reducing passenger overcrowding and enhancing liveability in cities.
Future urban planning scenarios for better health
This project investigates the impact of different planning and residential density scenarios on the daily lives of people.
Centre for Urban Research heat library
Centre for Urban Research experts collaborate with industry, communities and other researchers around the world to produce leading research on heat, justice and cooler, fairer futures. Read more of their work using the links below.
Hot Cities
This project is using machine learning to map residential property parcel scale (re)development across Australian cities and measure its impact on built, impervius, and tree cover.
High Life: The policy and practice of designing healthy, equitable higher density
The High Life project examines the interplay between apartment design policy, the design and location of apartment buildings, and residents’ health and wellbeing outcomes in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
Towards climate resilient families
Mapping intersections of gender and place-based responses to summer heat vulnerability.
Enhancing urban resilience to climate change impacts and natural disasters: Honiara
The overarching aim of this project is to enhance the resilience of the city and its inhabitants to current and future climate impacts and natural disasters.
Social and policy dimensions of waste minimisation and waste management
This project is part of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Reclaimed Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS), which will address the urgent waste crisis in Australia.
