The Environmental Planning Programme at the University of Waikato is hosting ANZAPS 2018 – the annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools. 1 – 3 November, Hamilton, New Zealand UQ|UP participants include Laurel Johnson and Dorina Pojani. Conference theme: Decisions, Decisions Decisions are at the heart of planning – from … Continue reading
The iMOVE CRC is a consortium of 44 industry, government, and research partners engaged in a concerted 10-year effort to improve Australia’s transport systems through collaborative R&D projects. It’s purpose is to help companies — and Australia — be more competitive, productive, and prosperous. Find out more about experts from across the world working and … Continue reading
Jessa Crispin is a critic, author, feminist thought leader, and the editor-in-chief of Bookslut, a litblog and webzine founded in 2002. She has published three books, most recently Why I Am Not A Feminist (2017). Public Intellectual is her podcast, created in July of 2017. In her words, it’s a series of complicated conversations about … Continue reading
The Q&A session was part of a graduate-level course on international development policy and planning, taught by A/Prof Kris Wernstedt. Dr Pojani shared her experience and familiarity with transport in the the Global South. Listen to the interview podcast [1h]. Continue reading
Banning cars in major cities would rapidly improve millions of lives Cities are starting to experiment with banning cars from their streets and the benefits to health and well-being could be enormous By Alice Klein IN DOWNTOWN Madrid, the reign of cars is coming to an end. Starting next month, the city centre will be … Continue reading
In this study, performance‐based planning is implicated in the destabilisation of community trust in the planning system. Set in a contested inner city area of Brisbane, Australia, the research associates neoliberal planning objectives with the discretionary decision‐making specifically embedded in performance‐based planning. The neoliberalisation of planning is, we submit, symptomatic of a post‐ideological politics of … Continue reading
The development of global metrics for evaluating university research performance has been accompanied by increasing attention to key performance metrics for individual disciplines. This paper examines research performance metrics for Australian planning academics. It addresses questions related to programs, staff, publications, and citations. The main findings are the following: Wide gender gaps exist in Australian … Continue reading