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ItemAgile housing for an ageing Australia(The Architectural Science Association and The University of Adelaide, 2016)By 2055, Australia’s 65+ population will have doubled and, if current strategies are followed, it is likely that the housing available will be inappropriate. Today’s housing stock will still be in use yet few developers and designers are capitalising on the potential of agile housing and, more broadly, the creation of age-friendly neighbourhoods. Current changes in design and prefabrication technology, along with government initiatives for ageing at home in preference to institutional care, have the potential to transform the way we consider housing design to support changing demographics. This research considers agile housing for an ageing population from the perspectives of urban planning, design, prefabrication, sustainability, life-cycle costing and social gerontology. We highlight the need for interdisciplinary perspectives in order to consider how entrenched policy, planning, design and construction practices can be encouraged to change through advocacy, design speculation and scenario testing to deliver right-sized housing. A cradle-to-grave perspective requires the exploration of the social and practical benefits of housing in multigenerational communities. This research links to concurrent work on affordable housing solutions and the potential of an industry, government and academic partnership to present an Australian Housing Exposition, that will highlight the possibilities of a more agile housing approach.
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ItemCan Australian governments steer ‘just intensification’? Evaluating Victorian affordable housing policy(Australian Cities Research Network, 2018)Over the past two decades, Australian planning policies have supported largely unregulated land speculation and gentrification in relatively well served inner and middle suburbs, leading to displacement of low and moderate income households and growing spatial inequalities. The current Victorian state government signalled a new direction by ‘refreshing’ the third metropolitan strategy in as many decades, Plan Melbourne (2014/2017), with an increased emphasis on ‘diverse housing close to jobs, transport and services. It also established a new independent infrastructure advisory body that defined social housing as an infrastructure priority, and developed a ‘whole of government’ affordable housing strategy. Through a content analysis of Plan Melbourne, along with the two associated recent strategies, this paper asks whether they provide sufficient regulatory, governance and finance mechanisms to address and potentially reverse the trend towards greater social polarisation. We conclude that absence of a coherent vision, strong evidence base, coordinated partnership mechanisms, and ambitious targets combine to make progress towards more just intensification unlikely.
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ItemVertical living kids: creating supportive environments for children in Melbourne's central city high rises(Australian Sustainable Cities Research Network, 2009)
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ItemFrom accidental planner to agent provocateur: 100 years of women in Victorian planning(University of Melbourne, 2010)
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ItemCommunity Safety Indicators: 'What works, what doesn't, what's promising'(Griffith University, 2006)
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ItemIntegrated Violence Prevention, Planning, and Governance: International and Victorian Perspectives(Causal Productions, 2007)This paper will present the findings from the first stage of a n ARC Linkage Grant between the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (Vic Health) entitled “Gender, Local Governance, and Violence Prevention: making the links”. the project works with four local government-community organization partnerships in Victoria: the inner suburb of Maribyrnong, the outer suburb-rural interface locality of Casey, the regional centre of Bendigo, and the rural shire of Loddon. In their first year of work, the municipalities and key health and women’s agencies have strengthened partnerships on violence prevention, developed audits of current resources working to prevent violence in their localities, and have begun to work on both policy formation and the development of monitoring and evaluation systems. While work in planning around violence prevention has traditionally focused on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, these audits and evaluation plans suggest a broadened role for spatial planning, related to social service provision, evidence-based ‘whole of government’ coordinated action, and engendering changes in attitudes towards public and private space.