Associate Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
Wendy Steele is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning co-located in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS) and the Centre for Urban Research (CUR) at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Indonesia isn't the only country planning new cities. Why not Australia?
May 02, 2019 16:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The announcement that President Joko Widodos government will move Indonesias capital to another location, due to the severity of human-induced degradation in Jakarta, highlights a key tension for cities today. In the face...
Business as usual? The Sustainable Development Goals apply to Australian cities too
Sep 25, 2018 18:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
We are still settling Australian cities on unceded Aboriginal lands. With the global agreement on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, development has finally come home to the developed world....
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