This thesis explores a range of emerging shopping morphologies and their capacities for resilient urbanity. Twentieth century shopping centre development was largely marked by the rise of the suburban mall and power centre ...

In the context of global warming, with more intense, and more frequent, weather extreme events, like bushfires, heat waves drought and floods, the pressure on governments to guarantee water provision is increasing. ...

Literature about participation in architecture promised architecture the restoration of a moral dimension, arguing that participation would offer opportunities for empowerment and deliver broad benefits. To its disservice, ...

After a long period of westernisation and modernisation, East Asian countries had begun a common effort in regenerating indigenous cultural resources to shape their own versions of modernity in response to a globalising ...

Residential laneways in Melbourne are leftover infrastructure from the 19th century, designed for sewage disposal practices that have long been displaced. At present, they are arguably the most extensive reserves of ...

This project considers certain connections between the so-called art world and global social mobility. Is the ubiquity of some universal aesthetic frameworks implicitly promoting the ever-expanding cultural class to become ...

The World was forewarned 46 years ago that single technological interventions to curb emissions and other human impacts on the environment would in fact not work on their own and may well make things worse (Meadows et al. ...

The Bakhtyari is one of the most important tribes in Iran, with a rich culture, which have lived a traditional lifestyle in the middle of the Zagros Mountains for centuries. While there has been a lot written about the ...

The study addresses construction in the context of increased political instability and violence that characterise conflict and post-conflict settings. Effects of political instability and violence upon conditions surrounding ...

Advances in 'big data' technologies over the past few years have allowed the creation of new software for modelling accessibility outcomes in metropolitan areas. One such Accessibility Indicator is SNAMUTS (Spatial Network ...