Projects

All Current and Past Projects

• De-Lighting Urban Night Skies

  Exploring how cities can recognise, protect, and create urban night environments that support biodiversity, health, and cultural meaning

• Bottom-Up Urban Resilience

  Understanding how community networks influence the provision and governance of infrastructure and how this shapes urban resilience

• Cities and International Engagement Survey

  Conducting a global survey of ‘city diplomacy’

• City Diplomacy

  Investigating the capacity of cities to engage in international relations

• Innovate4Cities

  Addressing critical data, innovation, and technology gaps to enable cities to take accelerated and ambitious climate action

• Justice for Multispecies Ecologies

  Visibilising forgotten spaces through counter-mapping methods

• Map of the Month

  Delivering a monthly ‘map’ of greater Melbourne, providing a new way of seeing the city

• Night Shift

  Planning and designing night-time economies for night shift workers in Australian Cities

• Playbook for Urban Biodiversity

  Informing practice and policy on biodiversity in cities

• The Retrofit Lab

  The Retrofit Lab is a Research and Innovation Laboratory activating the transition of Melbourne's buildings, infrastructure and landscapes for a healthy, sustainable, and resilient city

• Urban Surfaces

  Exploring the role of urban surfaces in developing public cultures and equitable cities

• Urban Act

  A multi-partner project strengthening collaborative climate action in the Asia-Pacific

• Re-imagining Streets with Green Infrastructure

• Digital Estate for Zero-Carbon Building Portfolio

• Latin America–Australia Urban Futures Hub

  Connecting researchers, governments, industry and communities to advance collaborative urban research, innovation and knowledge exchange between Australia and Latin America

• Cities After Dark

  Urban life doesn't stop when the sun goes down

• Cities and the UN

  What place do cities have in the United Nations?

• City Networks

  The networked frontier of city leadership

• City Resilience Strategies

  City actions contributing to resilient urban futures

• Environment Politics Beyond Environment

  How can environment politics go beyond the essentialist morality of ‘protecting nature’?

• Gig Cities

  How are gig economy mobile apps changing our cities?

• Healthy City Leadership

  Supporting the World Health Organization in driving healthy and sustainable urban governance

• Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality

  Can we co-produce more equal cities?

• Innovation Infrastructure: Planning for Growth

  The civilisation of human societies is underpinned by innovation

• Leading Cities

  Is urban governance delivering on its promises?

• Promoting Urban Nature and Biodiversity Conservation

  Cities play a critical role in combatting the dual biodiversity extinction and climate crises

• Science and the Future of Cities

  A Nature Sustainability Expert Panel

• SDGs for Melbourne

  Localising the SDGs: A Strategic Prioritisation Framework for City of Melbourne

• Student-City Policy Innovation

  How can cities best work with young people to shape global energy transitions and climate action?

• Urban Migration

  What powers do cities have to govern the inclusion of migrants and refugees?

• Urban Observatories

  Leveraging urban data to shape cities

• Working Away

  How working away is changing home

• Future of Orbost and District Project

  Implementing the Latrobe Valley Authority’s (LVA) Smart Specialisation methodology for developing a roadmap for the future of the Orbost district

• Great Powers and Urbanisation Project

  How is geopolitics being shaped in the ‘urban age’?

• SDGs Cities Challenge

  A collaborative project contributing to the implementation of key urban Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets and indicators

• Comparative Imaginations

  How do cities think of each other?

• From Garden City to Eco-Citadel: Global Greenbelts

  History of municipal greenbelts in the UK, USA, and Australia

• Achieving Justice For Street Harassment

  Developing victim-centred understandings of justice in response to street harassment

• Young Mayors

  Backing young people who want to take an active role in their local community

• Linking UN-Habitat and Universities

  Harnessing the potential of knowledge partnerships

• Tackling a global pandemic in Asian megacities

  What policy lessons can be drawn from responses to global health shocks build inclusive and resilient cities?

• Project Night Justice

  Building safer cities for women and gender diverse people

• Philanthropy and the City

  What is the role of philanthropic institutions in the future of cities?

• Communities, kava, court orders: Ways of possessing the Pacific city

  Possession is which fraction of customary law?

• Evidence to Action

  A Framework for Evidence Building and Learning from Local to Global

• Actionable Research

• City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation

  Fostering research and training in the field of city resilience and innovation.

• Digital Nomads

  Exploring why people becoming Digital Nomads.

• Climate-Induced Displacement, Resettlement, Adaptation, and Resilience for Cities

  A global initiative uniting scholars and practitioners to shape a research network on climate-induced displacement, resettlement, adaptation, and urban resilience.

• Disinformation in the City

  What does rising disinformation mean for cities?

• Spatial Justice

  Investigating legal, municipal and social responses to political protesters and to the visibly homeless in city streets