Australian Urban Design Guidelines: What do we know and what can we learn?
I have recently co-authored an article focused on existing Urban Design Guidelines in Australia. The article has been recently published in the Australian Planner.
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Urban Heat: Mapping temperature in Ipswich
Professor Karine Dupré and I are undertaking a survey to enhance the understanding of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) on the Ipswich (Queensland, Australia). The information provided about local areas within Ipswich will be considered in steps to reduce UHI through urban design and other methods.
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Why isn’t New Zealand part of Australia anyway?
This is a very interesting short video about why New Zealand is (not!) a State of Australia… Read more…
The Integration of Safety Values and Measures in the Design of Resilient Public Spaces / A Integração de Valores e Medidas de Segurança no Projeto de Espaços Públicos Resilientes
For a few years now I’ve had the goal of publishing at least one article per year in Portuguese, my mother tongue. In 2020 I had the great pleasure of publishing an article in the Projectare journal, which is published in my alma mater UFPel. Read more…
Urban design policy recommendations for mitigating the human health risks associated with heatwaves
Ryan McNeilly-Smith and I are undertaking a research project on how urban design solutions can assist in mitigating the human health risks associated with extreme heat events. Read more…
‘Urbanismo’ in Australia and Brazil: Differences and opportunities
I would like to start this text by clarifying, as Michael Hebbert did in one of my favorite articles on this topic: ‘urban planning is Anglo-Saxon, urbanism is Latin’. Australia follows the Anglo-Saxon model, Brazil follows the Latin model. Urban planning is process and regulation, urbanism is physical space. Read more…
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
A little snippet of beautiful Brisbane’s central area. Read more…
Good morning…
Just breathe…. Read more…
Cities will endure, but urban design must adapt to coronavirus risks and fears
Silvia Tavares, Author provided
Silvia Tavares, University of the Sunshine Coast and Nicholas Stevens, University of the Sunshine Coast
The long-term impacts of coronavirus on our cities are difficult to predict, but one thing is certain: cities won’t die. Diseases have been hugely influential in shaping our cities, history shows. Cities represent continuity regardless of crises – they endure, adapt and grow. Read more…
JCU street sketching in Townsville: An approach to drawing on location and recording what you see
Disclaimer: This is the first of a series of very delayed posts. A lot has been happening in the past few months, hence my silence. I definitely have to get better in sharing things here in ‘real time’, or at last as close to ‘real’ as possible.
Since I was a kid I always loved sketching and I was fortunate enough to be able to make that also part of my work. On 7th September, I organised a sketching workshop led by Richard Briggs. Read more…
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