Mr Peter Varghese, the Chancellor of The University of Queensland (2016-present), shared his extensive experience in development planning with UQ|UP students in a course on international development in developing countries taught by Dr Sonia Roitman. Mr Varghese’s career in public service spans 40 years and includes senior positions in foreign affairs, trade policy and intelligence. … Continue reading
New article in The Conversation by Dr Sonia Roitman on how inclusionary planning instruments could help to reduce income inequality in Indonesian cities. If you want to read the article in English click here and for the article in Bahasa Indonesia click here. Continue reading
Many people and organisations supported the ‘Renters @ Home’ research. Now that the PhD thesis resulting from this research is submitted, stakeholders, participants and researchers are invited to a final seminar. We will take a deep dive into some data and findings to explore what challenges and what supports renters to be ‘at home’ as … Continue reading
ISA World Congress of Sociology (Toronto, 15-21 July 2018) Call for Papers The deadline for abstract submission for the ISA congress is 30/09/17. There are very interesting panels organised by the RC21 (Urban and regional development). If you are working on SDGs, the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement, you might want to submit … Continue reading
The Second International Conference on African Urban Planning took place in Lisbon last week (7-8 September 2017, University of Lisbon). The conference discussed four main themes: History of urban planning in Africa Current debate on planning in Africa Localising SDG11 and the New Urban Agenda Social and economic challenges and changes in African cities Sonia … Continue reading
Sonia Roitman (UQ, Planning) presented a paper on inequality and gated communities in Indonesia at the 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting on Geographies of Inequality, in Stockholm in June 2017 http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017/programme/theme. For more information, get in touch with Sonia (s.roitman@uq.edu.au). Continue reading
Sonia Roitman and colleagues from the Global Change Institute (Grace Muriuki and Karen Hussey) and the School of Public Health (Lisa Schubert) recently published a working paper on ‘Urban food systems’ emphasising the importance of food security in the planning agenda of local governments. Urban Food Systems in Australian Cities_Background-compile Continue reading