Monash Urban Lab

An evidence-based framework for capturing the tacit + future values of Melbourne’s ‘National Employment and Innovation Clusters’.

Developing a governance model to build connections between infrastructure planning and strategic urban planning.

Assisting policymakers in assessing the risk of employment vulnerability as the impacts of Covid-19 evolve.

International research around the changing dynamics among the creative industries and urban manufacturing.

Exploring how urban development can achieve water sensitive outcomes through planning at a range of scales.

Developing a tested catalogue of typologies for new infill development.

Improving the effectiveness of infill development.

Striving for the highest sustainability standards makes sense environmentally and economically.

Examining the history, current state, and future prospects of purpose-built and strategically planned new cities in Australia.

Sourcing a new ‘big dataset’ to identify, visualise, and monitor informal housing practices in Australia.

Enhancing the quality and viability of townhouse redevelopment on small lots.

Investigating how a dynamic visualisation platform can help to better inform and enable our community to participate in city planning.

A smart urban research-synthesis-engagement platform for decision making.

Reducing non-communicable diseases and health inequities for English city regions and Melbourne.

Developing insights relating to reuse commodity chains, their societal benefits and contributions to nurture a more future-forward inclusive, circular economy.

Making the urban environment safer and more liveable.

Modelling autonomous vehicle-induced urban growth and inform land use based policy measures to minimise their effects on transportation.

Assessing the potential, opportunities and challenges facing cities in regard to shared mobility, in particular free-floating car sharing (FFCS) and its related parking issues.

High-quality, innovative architecture and urban design provides great living places.

Investigating how design research approaches can contribute to guiding the intensification of Australian cities.

Sustainable regeneration for Melbourne’s middle suburbs.

Testing a diversity of low- and medium-rise dwelling models for precinct-scaled infill redevelopment.

Understanding and catering to the social and spatial needs of food delivery riders.

Exploring the architectural and urban implications of the sharing economy.

Fostering city life through planning for social diversity and urban space complexity.

Beyond Housing: affordable and agile living in peri-urban areas

What influences resident’s attitudes to infill housing proposals?

How a suburb undergoing rapid change is altered by a precinct-wide masterplan and series of architectural proposals.