Ali Cheshmehzangi, Professor and Head of the School of ADP The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture, Design, and Planning is excited to collaborate with outstanding global partners on essential research in climate change, healthy cities, resilience, societal impact, and climate action. Through these partnerships, the School brings together an extensive range of expertise across … Continue reading
Ali Cheshmehzangi’s book ‘Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped’ is now three years old! This book is the first study to introduce and highlight the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace, or the HSP nexus. The discussions become handy again, particularly at a time when peace is far from … Continue reading
Ali Cheshmehzangi, Professor and Head of the School of ADP Urban farming presents a significant opportunity for Brisbane to incorporate sustainable practices into its urban development while simultaneously enhancing community well-being. It can help the city meet global sustainability goals like the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it gets ready for big changes brought … Continue reading
A paper written by Zaheer Allam (Adjunct member of ADP), Ashish Sharma, and Ali Cheshmehzangi (Head of School of ADP), published in “Cities” This paper explores the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative, a pioneering approach initiated by India to propel sustainable urban development through targeted behavioural change. Positioned at the nexus of individual action and … Continue reading
Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) A few years ago, when I lectured about urban mobility, I used to touch on the importance of public transportation (PT). I stressed that PT should not be perceived as “PPT” or ‘Poor People’s Transportation’. This common misconception needed to be addressed, especially … Continue reading
UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani, was invited by GIZ Tirana to share her feminist perspective on urban development and mobility. Roughly 60 people attended the #giztalks “Gender and the City: A Feminist Perspective on Urban Mobility”. Dorina centred her presentation on the key role of sustainable mobility policies in achieving gender equity. Continue reading
Next week, UQ and Universitas Indonesia (UI) will jointly host a new webinar as part of the UQ-UI Bilateral Research Forum. This webinar is entitled Sustainable Urbanisation and Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesian Cities. Our overall aim is to foster conversations between UQ and UI researchers working on sustainable cities in Indonesia. The webinar will start with … Continue reading
This presentation will examine issues related to policy transfer in urban transport planning in Southeast Asia. It will consider the metropolitan regions of four major capitals: Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Bangkok. Who transfers policy and why, what elements of policy are transferred, in what direction and to what degree, and what barriers does transfer … Continue reading
Systems thinking, involving tipping points, phase shifts and entropy, usefully underpins investigation of anthropogenic interaction with the natural milieu. Since the stakes in environmental management are no longer local or regional but global, analysis must move beyond the natural sciences’ cataloguing of the symptoms to probe the causes of the cumulating disruptions gripping the world. … Continue reading
The new issue of Connect, the newsletter published by the Organisation of Planning Students (OOPS) at UQ, is out! This issue is about Green Space. It discusses issues about green-oriented development, people, planet and profit, and the guidelines for a green design by Brisbane City Council. Congratulations to OOPS for another great issue and well … Continue reading