Upcoming Webinar: Creating accessible and inclusive public spaces with/for resilient communities
I am very honoured to share that tomorrow I will participate in the seminar series ‘2020: A Year without Public Space under the COVID-19 Pandemic’.
Nick Stevens and I will be part of the panel and we will present and discuss a project we have been working on.
Planning and designing multi-services green infrastructure: The case of Cairns, published in My Liveable City Magazine
In April this year Karine Dupré and I published an article entitled Planning and designing multi-services green infrastructure: The case of Cairns in the Indian magazine My Liveable City. Read more…
Healthy, happy and tropical – world’s fastest-growing cities demand our attention
Karine Dupré, Griffith University; Jane Coulon, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Montpellier, and Silvia Tavares, James Cook University
What does it take to be a happy and healthy city? In any city, myriad factors go into the mix – and of course we are not dealing with just one kind of city. But, due to the world history of colonisation, models are still too often European-centric. In particular, we need to adjust how we think about cities in the tropics. Read more…
Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
Silvia Tavares, James Cook University and David Sellars, James Cook University
Life in the tropics is often seen as “living in paradise”, a place where everything grows and flourishes. This picture-postcard environment is not the year-round reality. At certain times of year, intense heat, humidity and the wet season affect liveability, making outdoor activity unattractive and thereby reducing social cohesion. Read more…
