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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-12-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-02-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1017/SSH.2022.30
Abstract: The dominance of capital cities (urban primacy) is an enduring characteristic of Australian states. There has been limited empirical research examining the drivers of primacy in states despite some being extreme ex les of the phenomenon, both in magnitude and scale. In light of institutional theories of settlement patterns, we developed a profile of Australian urbanization using a century of time-series data, descriptive statistics, and an empirical model of city populations. In Australian states high measures of primacy have endured with little evidence of disruption despite the enormous size of these states, their wealth, and population growth – factors associated with declining and low primacy. Statistically, state capital city status has a significant effect on city population size variation, with results suggesting primacy in states is in part a product of Australian federalism. This contrasts with views that suggest Australia’s scarcity of large non-capital cities is due to isolation, low population, and environmental determinism. The findings in this paper have major implications relative to national and/or state strategies that aim to decentralize population away from the primate cities.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/23998083221092419
Abstract: There is growing consensus that planning professionals need clearer guidance on features of the built environment that promote health benefits. Concomitantly, the smart city movement has created renewed opportunity and interest in data-driven urban modelling to support land use planning. Planning Support Systems (PSS) are spatially enabled computer-based analytical tools incorporating health-related metrics that apply empirical evidence on built environment relationships with health-related outcomes to inform real-world urban design, urban planning and transportation planning decisions. This paper presents the development of the Urban Health Check PSS to use local empirical data to explore and predict relative health impacts associated with proposed urban design planning changes from alternative new station precinct masterplan concepts. We present a case study where we compare a baseline scenario with alternative design concepts for a new train station precinct in Perth, Western Australia, that incorporated possible built environment interventions. Subsequently, we discuss potential future applications of health impact PSS for the translation and application of health evidence into practice.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2016
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-06-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2019-029220
Abstract: The rapid increase in apartment construction in Australia has raised concerns about the impacts of poorly designed and located buildings on resident health and well-being. While apartment design policies exist, their content varies across jurisdictions and evidence on their impact on health and well-being is lacking. This cross-sectional observational study (2017–2021) aims to generate empirical evidence to guide policy decisions on apartment development and help to create healthy, equitable higher-density communities. Objectives include to benchmark the implementation of health-promoting apartment design requirements and to identify associations between requirements and resident health and well-being outcomes. Eligible buildings in three Australian cities with different apartment design guidelines will be stratified by area disadvantage and randomly selected (~n=99). Building architects, developers and local governments will be approached to provide endorsed development plans from which apartment and building design features will be extracted. Additional data collection includes a resident survey (~n=1000) to assess environmental stressors and health and well-being impacts and outcomes, and geographic information systems measures of the neighbourhood. The study has 85% power to detect a difference of 0.5 SD in the primary outcome of mental well-being (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale) at a 5% level of significance. Analyses will compare policy compliance and health-promoting design features between cities and area disadvantage groups. Regression models will test whether higher policy compliance (overall and by design theme) is associated with better health and well-being, and the relative contribution of the neighbourhood context. Human Research Ethics Committees of RMIT University (CHEAN B 21146-10/17) and the University of Western Australia (RA/4/1/8735) approved the study protocol. In addition to academic publications, the collaboration will develop specific health-promoting indicators to embed into the monitoring of apartment design policy implementation and impact, and co-design research dissemination materials to facilitate uptake by decision makers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-08-2021
DOI: 10.1186/S12942-021-00291-Z
Abstract: There is consensus that planning professionals need clearer guidance on the features that are likely to produce optimal community-wide health benefits. However, much of this evidence resides in academic literature and not in tools accessible to the erse group of professionals shaping our cities. Incorporating health-related metrics into the planning support systems (PSS) provides an opportunity to apply empirical evidence on built environment relationships with health-related outcomes to inform real-world land use and transportation planning decisions. This paper explores the role of planning support systems (PSS) to facilitate the translation and application of health evidence into urban planning and design practices to create healthy, liveable communities. A review of PSS software and a literature review of studies featuring a PSS modelling built environmental features and health impact assessment for designing and creating healthy urban areas was undertaken. Customising existing software, a health impact PSS (the Urban Health Check) was then piloted with a real-world planning application to evaluate the usefulness and benefits of a health impact PSS for demonstrating and communicating potential health impacts of design scenarios in planning practice. Eleven PSS software applications were identified, of which three were identified as having the capability to undertake health impact analyses. Three studies met the inclusion criteria of presenting a planning support system customised to support health impact assessment with health impacts modelled or estimated due to changes to the built environment. Evaluation results indicated the Urban Health Check PSS helped in four key areas: visualisation of how the neighbourhood would change in response to a proposed plan understanding how a plan could benefit the community Communicate and improve understanding health of planning and design decisions that positively impact health outcomes. The use of health-impact PSS have the potential to be transformative for the translation and application of health evidence into planning policy and practice, providing those responsible for the policy and practice of designing and creating our communities with access to quantifiable, evidence-based information about how their decisions might impact community health.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-12-2020
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1071/BT20089
Abstract: The rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide is leading to native habitat loss and ecosystem fragmentation and degradation. Although the study of urbanisation’s impact on bio ersity is gaining increasing interest globally, there is still a disconnect between research recommendations and urbanisation strategies. Expansion of the Perth metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain in south-western Australia, one of the world’s thirty-six bio ersity hotspots, continues to affect the Banksia Woodlands (BWs) ecosystem, a federally listed Threatened Ecological Community (TEC). Here, we utilise the framework of a 1989 review of the state of knowledge of BWs ecology and conservation to examine scientific advances made in understanding the composition, processes and functions of BWs and BWs’ species over the last 30 years. We highlight key advances in our understanding of the ecological function and role of mechanisms in BWs that are critical to the management of this ecosystem. The most encouraging change since 1989 is the integration of research between historically disparate ecological disciplines. We outline remaining ecological knowledge gaps and identify key research priorities to improve conservation efforts for this TEC. We promote a holistic consideration of BWs with our review providing a comprehensive document that researchers, planners and managers may reference. To effectively conserve ecosystems threatened by urban expansion, a range of stakeholders must be involved in the development and implementation of best practices to conserve and maintain both bio ersity and human wellbeing.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-09-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2022
Publisher: The Institute for Research and Community Services (LPPM) ITB
Date: 20-09-2022
Abstract: Institutional theories of urban primacy suggest centralized urbanization can be decentralized through political reform. Despite this potential, rectifying primacy and its attendant inefficiencies attracts sporadic interest. Perhaps this is because the disruption of primacy is rarely observed, rendering the potential of decentralization a nebulous concept. Missing cities are a defining feature of primacy yet rarely figure in empirical cost-benefit analyses. To explore this dimension, we examine the history of urbanization in a large country renowned for primacy before and after it was invaded and ided into two countries. In the invaded part of the country, we observe the disruption of primacy following the transformation of political institutions, highlighting the importance of addressing institutions in the redress of urban primacy.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2014
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