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Journal articles on the topic "Trees in cities Australia":
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Fuentes, Sigfredo, Eden Tongson, and Claudia Gonzalez Viejo. "Urban Green Infrastructure Monitoring Using Remote Sensing from Integrated Visible and Thermal Infrared Cameras Mounted on a Moving Vehicle." Sensors 21, no. 1 (January 4, 2021): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21010295.
Climate change forecasts higher temperatures in urban environments worsening the urban heat island effect (UHI). Green infrastructure (GI) in cities could reduce the UHI by regulating and reducing ambient temperatures. Forest cities (i.e., Melbourne, Australia) aimed for large-scale planting of trees to adapt to climate change in the next decade. Therefore, monitoring cities’ green infrastructure requires close assessment of growth and water status at the tree-by-tree resolution for its proper maintenance and needs to be automated and efficient. This project proposed a novel monitoring system using an integrated visible and infrared thermal camera mounted on top of moving vehicles. Automated computer vision algorithms were used to analyze data gathered at an Elm trees avenue in the city of Melbourne, Australia (n = 172 trees) to obtain tree growth in the form of effective leaf area index (LAIe) and tree water stress index (TWSI), among other parameters. Results showed the tree-by-tree variation of trees monitored (5.04 km) between 2016–2017. The growth and water stress parameters obtained were mapped using customized codes and corresponded with weather trends and urban management. The proposed urban tree monitoring system could be a useful tool for city planning and GI monitoring, which can graphically show the diurnal, spatial, and temporal patterns of change of LAIe and TWSI to monitor the effects of climate change on the GI of cities.
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Daoud-Opit, Savannah, and Darryl N. Jones. "Guided by the light: Roost choice and behaviour of urban Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus)." European Journal of Ecology 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eje-2016-0008.
Abstract 1. The formation of large communal roosts is a conspicuous phenomenon associated with a wide range of bird species successfully exploiting urban environments. In many Australian cities, the abundance of the Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus), a native parrot, has increased markedly in recent decades, with the species roosting in very large numbers within suburban sites. These roosting locations are noisy and cause significant fouling of the land beneath, resulting in conflict with humans. 2. We investigated the selection of roosting sites in this species in Brisbane, Australia, by comparing characteristics of both the general sites of these roosts as well as individual trees used within roosting sites and trees that were avoided. 3. Lorikeets used a wide variety of tree types for roosting but demonstrated a clear preference for clumped trees within sparsely treed areas that received significantly more artificial light at night than otherwise suitable sites and trees nearby. 4. These features of roosting sites may enhance the detection of nocturnal predators by Rainbow Lorikeets, suggesting a potential positive impact of anthropogenic lighting. Our findings provide valuable insights into the management of roost-related conflicts in urban areas. We encourage further investigations into the possible benefits of artificial light.
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Brown, Helen, Katrina Proust, Barry Newell, Jeffery Spickett, Tony Capon, and Lisa Bartholomew. "Cool Communities—Urban Density, Trees, and Health." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 7 (July 22, 2018): 1547. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071547.
A move towards more compact and climate-resilient cities is being encouraged around the world. As part of these plans, there is a need to manage the potential conflict between increasing urban densities and the extent of tree canopy in cities. Reductions in tree canopy are a major contributor to the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which will act to reduce rather than increase climate resilience in many cities. A systems thinking approach called Collaborative Conceptual Modelling was used to study the interaction between urban infill, tree canopy, and human health in Perth, Australia. The results indicated that under current planning policies and development practices, the behaviour of the system is dominated by the drive towards higher housing densities. While this may result in the attainment of urban infill targets, it is likely to lead to a reduction in tree canopy, higher temperatures, and a decrease in a range of other benefits provided by trees. Recommended actions to overcome this behaviour were determined by the identification of leverage points in the system. These included a shift to a sustainable development paradigm that places greater value on the environmental and social benefits provided by trees and a greater emphasis on a climate-resilient future. Market and legislative mechanisms should be integrated into the city’s greening strategy and development plans to ensure the protection of existing trees and the inclusion of new trees on public and private land.
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McKinnon, Ross, Malcolm Bunzli, and Ray Steward. "Harry Oakman (1906–2002): A Retrospective of his Life and Work." Queensland Review 10, no. 2 (November 2003): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600003329.
The vision of Harry Oakman has brought pleasure, relaxation and, at times, solace to most of us, but few know his name. As we stroll in parks among trees, shrubs and colourful flowerbeds, pass by ponds and fountains, or play bat and ball with the kids on large grassy spaces, we are giving life to his dreams.Judy CannonOn 16 June 2002 a remarkable Australian, Harry Oakman, died. The author of thirteen books on tropical and subtropical gardening, he remains the most widely read gardener in Queensland and probably Australia. He was one of the early public horticulturalists, parks department manager, landscaper, planner with probably more public open space and recreation areas designed by him in the cities of Newcastle, Brisbane and Canberra than any other parks administrator.
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Yenneti, Komali, Lan Ding, Deo Prasad, Giulia Ulpiani, Riccardo Paolini, Shamila Haddad, and Mattheos Santamouris. "Urban Overheating and Cooling Potential in Australia: An Evidence-Based Review." Climate 8, no. 11 (November 4, 2020): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli8110126.
Cities in Australia are experiencing unprecedented levels of urban overheating, which has caused a significant impact on the country’s socioeconomic environment. This article provides a comprehensive review on urban overheating, its impact on health, energy, economy, and the heat mitigation potential of a series of strategies in Australia. Existing studies show that the average urban heat island (UHI) intensity ranges from 1.0 °C to 13.0 °C. The magnitude of urban overheating phenomenon in Australia is determined by a combination of UHI effects and dualistic atmospheric circulation systems (cool sea breeze and hot desert winds). The strong relation between multiple characteristics contribute to dramatic fluctuations and high spatiotemporal variabilities in urban overheating. In addition, urban overheating contributes to serious impacts on human health, energy costs, thermal comfort, labour productivity, and social behaviour. Evidence suggest that cool materials, green roofs, vertical gardens, urban greenery, and water-based technologies can significantly alleviate the UHI effect, cool the ambient air, and create thermally balanced cities. Urban greenery, especially trees, has a high potential for mitigation. Trees and hedges can reduce the average maximum UHI by 1.0 °C. The average maximum mitigation performance values of green roofs and green walls are 0.2 °C and 0.1 °C, respectively. Reflective roofs and pavements can reduce the average maximum UHI by 0.3 °C. In dry areas, water has a high cooling potential. The average maximum cooling potential using only one technology is 0.4 °C. When two or more technologies are used at the same time, the average maximum UHI drop is 1.5 °C. The mitigation strategies identified in this article can help the governments and other stakeholders manage urban heating in the natural and built environment, and save health, energy, and economic costs.
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Kirkpatrick, J. B., A. Davison, and G. D. Daniels. "Resident attitudes towards trees influence the planting and removal of different types of trees in eastern Australian cities." Landscape and Urban Planning 107, no. 2 (August 2012): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.05.015.
Coutts, Andrew M., Nigel J. Tapper, Jason Beringer, Margaret Loughnan, and Matthias Demuzere. "Watering our cities." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 37, no. 1 (November 6, 2012): 2–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133312461032.
Urban drainage infrastructure is generally designed to rapidly export stormwater away from the urban environment to minimize flood risk created by extensive impervious surface cover. This deficit is resolved by importing high-quality potable water for irrigation. However, cities and towns at times face water restrictions in response to drought and water scarcity. This can exacerbate heating and drying, and promote the development of unfavourable urban climates. The combination of excessive heating driven by urban development, low water availability and future climate change impacts could compromise human health and amenity for urban dwellers. This paper draws on existing literature to demonstrate the potential of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) to help improve outdoor human thermal comfort in urban areas and support Climate Sensitive Urban Design (CSUD) objectives within the Australian context. WSUD provides a mechanism for retaining water in the urban landscape through stormwater harvesting and reuse while also reducing urban temperatures through enhanced evapotranspiration and surface cooling. Research suggests that WSUD features are broadly capable of lowering temperatures and improving human thermal comfort, and when integrated with vegetation (especially trees) have potential to meet CSUD objectives. However, the degree of benefit (the intensity of cooling and improvements to human thermal comfort) depends on a multitude of factors including local environmental conditions, the design and placement of the systems, and the nature of the surrounding urban landscape. We suggest that WSUD can provide a source of water across Australian urban environments for landscape irrigation and soil moisture replenishment to maximize the urban climatic benefits of existing vegetation and green spaces. WSUD should be implemented strategically into the urban landscape, targeting areas of high heat exposure, with many distributed WSUD features at regular intervals to promote infiltration and evapotranspiration, and maintain tree health.
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Kirkpatrick, J. B., G. D. Daniels, and A. Davison. "Temporal and spatial variation in garden and street trees in six eastern Australian cities." Landscape and Urban Planning 101, no. 3 (June 2011): 244–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.029.
Bhullar, Simrath, and Jonathan Majer. "Arthropods on street trees: a food resource for wildlife." Pacific Conservation Biology 6, no. 2 (2000): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc000171.
As with most cities throughout the world, the Western Australian city of Perth is beautified with rows of street trees. Here, the choice of trees tends to be dictated by their hardiness and ease of cultivation (e.g., Queensland Box Lophostemon confertus), their perceived beauty (e.g., Lemon Scented Gum Eucalyptus citriodora) and the affiliation with species from regions where many of the settlers originated (e.g., London Plane Tree Platanus acerifolia). Evidence indicates that the abundance and diversity of arthropods on a tree species is, to a large extent, a reflection of the tree in recent geological history ? the more recent the arrival, the less arthropods are likely to occur on it (Southwood 1960, 1961). From work with native eucalypt species, Recher et al. (1996) have found that arthropod density and diversity differs markedly between tree species within an ecosystem, and this phenomenon flows through to the insectivorous birds which forage on these trees. Those species with high levels of arthropods, such as Narrow-leaved Ironbark E. crebra in New South Wales are visited by pardalotes, thornbills and weebills to a much greater extent than the co-dominant Grey Box E. moluccana (Recher et al. 1994).
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Aryal, Jagannath, Chiranjibi Sitaula, and Sunil Aryal. "NDVI Threshold-Based Urban Green Space Mapping from Sentinel-2A at the Local Governmental Area (LGA) Level of Victoria, Australia." Land 11, no. 3 (February 27, 2022): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11030351.
Obtaining accurate, precise and timely spatial information on the distribution and dynamics of urban green space is crucial in understanding livability of the cities and urban dwellers. Inspired from the importance of spatial information in planning urban lives, and availability of state-of-the-art remote sensing data and technologies in open access forms, in this work, we develop a simple three-level hierarchical mapping of urban green space with multiple usability to various stakeholders. We utilize the established Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) threshold on Sentinel-2A Earth Observation image data to classify the urban vegetation of each Victorian Local Government Area (LGA). Firstly, we categorize each LGA region into two broad classes as vegetation and non-vegetation; secondly, we further categorize the vegetation regions of each LGA into two sub-classes as shrub (including grassland) and trees; thirdly, for both shrub and trees classes, we further classify them as stressed and healthy. We not only map the urban vegetation in hierarchy but also develop Urban Green Space Index (UGSI) and Per Capita Green Space (PCGS) for the Victorian Local Government Areas (LGAs) to provide insights on the association of demography with urban green infrastructure using urban spatial analytics. To show the efficacy of the applied method, we evaluate our results using a Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform across different NDVI threshold ranges. The evaluation result shows that our method produces excellent performance metrics such as mean precision, recall, f-score and accuracy. In addition to this, we also prepare a recent Sentinel-2A dataset and derived products of urban green space coverage of the Victorian LGAs that are useful for multiple stakeholders ranging from bushfire modellers to biodiversity conservationists in contributing to sustainable and resilient urban lives.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Trees in cities Australia":
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Ho, Sau-ming Seraphina. "Soil conditions in landscape tree planters in urban Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21375483.
Hui, Shuk-kwan. "A discussion on wall trees in Western District." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42904687.
Sin, Mun-yee. "Biogeography of urban greenery a case study of Tai Po New Town in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22331839.
Yip, Chiu-wah Regina. "The impact of new town development on urban trees in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21979170.
Heath, Michael John. "Asset and risk management of mature trees /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHLM/09archlmh438.pdf.
Parker, Matthew David. "The management of tree replacement in mature urban landscapes." Connect to thesis, 2004. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/62.
Amenity trees provide physical, social and economic benefits to people sharing their environment. To maintain the benefits that many people have come to expect of trees in their urban landscapes, a viable and dynamic tree population is required. To this end it is necessary to plant new trees or replace existing trees when they require removal. The challenge when replacing mature trees is not simply the process of planting a tree when one is removed, but of the continual replacement of the entire tree population in a planned and managed fashion. In urban landscapes this is not a natural process, and human intervention is required.
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Stenhouse, Renae N. "Ecology and management of bushland in Australian cities." University of Western Australia. School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0027.
[Truncated abstract] Native vegetation (bushland) in urban areas remains in small, isolated patches embedded within a matrix of human-dominated land uses. Bushlands in urban areas have high biodiversity conservation and social values, and there has been a local-level movement towards protecting and managing urban bushlands in Australia. This thesis aims to test principles, theories and concepts relating to the ecology and management of bushland fragments in Australian cities ... A commonly used qualitative scale was compared with an ecologically based, quantitative technique developed in the research. The qualitative scale was found to be a reliable proxy for assessing vegetation condition, while also being more user-friendly for community groups and other bushland managers. The human-caused disturbances and weed cover in urban bushlands indicate a need for management intervention. Local government has an important role in local biodiversity management, yet there has been little research on this topic ... Positive partnerships developed where local governments have taken a ‘contract model’ approach to volunteer coordination, have a number of expectations of volunteer groups, and provide the groups with relatively high level of assistance. Also important is a local government that supports, respects, trusts and communicates with the community group, and recognises volunteers’ skills, knowledge and contributions. With increased resources allocated to local government bushland management and conservation, and coordination with community groups, the full potential of local bushland management would be realised.
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Yeung, Ka-ming. "The establishment and survival of roadside trees in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13474583.
許淑君 and Shuk-kwan Hui. "A discussion on wall trees in Western District." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42904687.
Siu, Pui-kei Ronnie. "'Experiencing the unexpected behavior of nature' the outdoor museum of wall trees /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4266441X.
Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009. Includes special report study entitled: 'When nature exploits man-made structures ... ' : a detailed study of wall trees in Hong Kong. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
Book chapters on the topic "Trees in cities Australia":
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Bolleter, Julian. "New Northern Cities." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 59–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_4.
Gussen, Benjamen. "A Peek at Sharing in Australia." In Sharing Cities 2020, 23–24. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8037-6_6.
Middle, Isaac. "Kings Park, Perth, Australia." In Why Cities Need Large Parks, 405–10. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003206378-39.
McGregor, Mel. "Karawatha Forest, Brisbane, Australia." In Why Cities Need Large Parks, 197–203. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003206378-17.
Horsley, Fran. "Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia." In Why Cities Need Large Parks, 275–81. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003206378-25.
Bolleter, Julian. "Barriers to New Northern Cities." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 91–110. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_5.
Bolleter, Julian. "Introduction." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 1–7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_1.
Bolleter, Julian. "Creating a Rural Civilization." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 9–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_2.
Bolleter, Julian. "Decentralization Fever." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 33–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_3.
Bolleter, Julian. "Relearning Lessons." In The Ghost Cities of Australia, 111–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89896-4_6.
Conference papers on the topic "Trees in cities Australia":
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Madaleno, I. M. "Growing fruit trees, medicinal plants and spices in the state of Goa, India." In COASTAL CITIES 2015. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/cc150191.
de Carvalho Junior, Antonio Deusany, Victor Seiji Hariki, and Alfredo Goldman. "Sensing Trees in Smart Cities with Open-Design Hardware." In 2018 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/nca.2018.8548274.
Gulgun, Bahriye. "TOKAT AND AMASYA CITIES MONUMENTAL TREES AS NATURAL HERITAGE." In 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2015. Stef92 Technology, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2015/b52/s23.096.
Fu, Chun, Pandarasamy Arjunan, and Clayton Miller. "Trimming outliers using trees." In BuildSys '22: The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3563357.3566147.
Gazder, U., and K. J. Assi. "Distinguishing between traffic crash white spots and black spots using classification and regression trees." In 4th Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2021). Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.0312.
Cechet, Bob, Krishna Nadimpalli, and Mark Edwards. "Severe wind risk for Australia cities — A national risk assessment approach." In 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2007.4423910.
Khan, Saeed Farooq, Neil Bergmann, Raja Jurdak, Branislav Kusy, and Mark Cameron. "Mobility in cities: Comparative analysis of mobility models using Geo-tagged tweets in Australia." In 2017 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Analysis (ICBDA). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icbda.2017.8078751.
Gong, Yikai, Fengmin Deng, and Richard O. Sinnott. "Identification of (near) Real-time Traffic Congestion in the Cities of Australia through Twitter." In CIKM'15: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2811271.2811276.
Islam, Md Rabiul, and Hans-Peter Igor Waldl. "Ramp rate analysis of roof-top PV on distribution grids for large cities in Australia." In 2016 4th International Conference on the Development in the in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdret.2016.7421524.
Stevens, Quentin. "A Brief History of the Short-Term Parklet in Australia." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4018pognw.
This paper examines the history within Australia of the ‘parklet’, a small architecturally-framed open space installed temporarily on an on-street car-parking space. The paper traces parklets’ varied and evolving forms, materials, production processes and functions. It examines how parklets have adapted to rapidly-changing social needs and priorities for economic activity, health, safety, socialising and on-street parking, and changes in street function. The contemporary parklet began in 2005 as a localised, grassroots activity to temporarily reclaim street space for public leisure, as part of the wider movement of ‘tactical urbanism’. Parklets rapidly became a worldwide phenomenon. Starting in 2008, parklets were absorbed into institutional urban planning practice, as a strategic tool to enhance community engagement, test possibilities, and win support for longer-term spatial transformations. From 2012, commercial parklet programs were developed in Australian cities to encourage local businesses to expand into street parking spaces, to calm traffic and enhance pedestrian amenity. A new generation of commercial ‘café parklets’ has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitated by local governments, to support the heavily-impacted hospitality industry. Their design and construction show ongoing innovation, increasing scale and professionalism, but also standardisation. This paper draws on diverse Australian parklet examples to chart the emergence of varying approaches to their design and construction, which draw upon different materials, skills, local government strategies and international precedents. The findings also illustrate several convergences in the evolution of parklet design across different Australian cities, due to strong similarities in the spatial contexts, needs, risk factors, and technologies that have defined this practice.
Reports on the topic "Trees in cities Australia":
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FACHINELLI, ANA CRISTINA, TAN YIGITCANLAR, TATIANA TUCUNDUVA PHILIPPI CORTESE, JAMILE SABATINI MARQUES, DEBORA SOTTO, and BIANCA LIBARDI. SMART CITIES DO BRASIL: Performance of Brazilian Capital Cities. UCS - Universidade de Caxias do Sul, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18226/9786500438604.
This report is an outcome of close collaboration between the Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Network's member institutions. The report focuses on understanding the smartness levels of the Brazilian capital cities through the lens of a smart city performance assessment framework. This report focuses on Brazilian cities to develop an evaluation model for smart cities and bring metrics that contribute to public managers seeking balance and smartness in the life of their cities. The smart city concept in this report concerns of smart economy, smart society, smart environment, smart governance, and smart technology domains that seek community-enabled technology and policy to deliver productivity, innovation, livability, well-being, sustainability, accessibility, and good governance and planning.
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Gorman- Murray, Andrew, Jason Prior, Evelyne de Leeuw, and Jacqueline Jones. Queering Cities in Australia - Making public spaces more inclusive through urban policy and practice. SPHERE HUE Collaboratory, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52708/qps-agm.
Building on the success of a UK-based project, Queering Public Space (Catterall & Azzouz 2021), this report refocuses the lens on Australian cities. This is necessary because the histories, legacies and contemporary forms of cities differ across the world, requiring nuanced local insight to ‘usualise’ queerness in public spaces. The report comprises the results of a desk-top research project. First, a thematic literature review (Braun & Clarke 2021) on the experiences of LGBTIQ+ individuals, families and communities in Australian cities was conducted, identifying best practices in inclusive local area policy and design globally. Building upon the findings of the literature review, a set of assessment criteria was developed: – Stakeholder engagement; – Formation of a LGBTIQ+ advisory committee; – Affirming and usualising LGBTIQ+ communities; – Staff training and awareness; and – Inclusive public space design guidelines
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FACHINELLI, ANA CRISTINA, TAN YIGITCANLAR, TATIANA TUCUNDUVA PHILIPPI CORTESE, JAMILE SABATINI MARQUES, DEBORA SOTTO, and BIANCA LIBARDI. SMART CITIES DO BRASIL: Desempenho das Capitais Brasileiras. UCS - Universidade de Caxias do Sul, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18226/9786500438611.
Este relatório é resultado de uma estreita colaboração entre as instituições membros da Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Network. Essa pesquisa traz um modelo de avaliação para Cidades Inteligentes com foco nas cidades brasileiras com o objetivo de trazer métricas e contribuir com os gestores públicos a fim de buscar o equilíbrio na vida das cidades. As cidades inteligentes neste estudo estão com olhar sob os aspectos de economia inteligente, sociedade inteligente, Meio Ambiente Inteligente, Governança inteligente e tecnologia inteligente e busca Habilitado pela comunidade, tecnologia e política para entregar produtividade, inovação, habitabilidade, bem-estar, sustentabilidade, acessibilidade e boa Governança e planejamento. Este documento se propõe a demonstrar aos gestores públicos, por meio de indicadores de produtividade e inovação, habitabilidade e bem-estar, sustentabilidade e acessibilidade, governança e planejamento, conectividade e Inovação na performance das cidades nos quesitos apresentados.
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Cunningham, Stuart, Marion McCutcheon, Mark Ryan, Susan Kerrigan, Phillip McIntyre, and Greg Hearn. ‘Creative Hotspots’ in the regions: Key thematic insights and findings from across Australia. Queensland University of Technology, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.227753.
Description The Creative Hotspots project, or as it was officially titled Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis, was an expansive, four-year project funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant (LP160101724). This comprehensive national study investigated the contemporary dynamics of cultural and creative activity in largely regional and non-capital cities and towns across Australia before the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. In total, the project conducted fieldwork in 17 creative and cultural hotspots across five states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, examining what makes each hotspot “hot”, identifying the dynamics that underpinned their high concentrations of creative and cultural employment and activity. This White Paper outlines the project's findings and outcomes.
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Davey, Jacob, Mario Peucker, and Cécile Simmons. The Far-Left and Far-Right in Australia - Equivalent Threats? Key findings and Policy Implications. Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56311/qiul3563.
This briefing paper is the fourth and final output in ‘Symbiotic Radicalisation’, a project in our ‘Dynamics of Violent Extremism’ research stream. Symbiotic Radicalisation is a collaboration between researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities at Victoria University (VU). This paper provides an overview of key trends identified throughout this research program, which examines the online interplay between the far-left and far-right in Australia (with a focus on the State of Victoria) and considers the policy implications of this work.
