Monash Urban Lab

Creating 20-minute resilient neighbourhoods and building community connectedness in Melbourne’s outersuburban growth areas.

Analysing how evaluation and learning from public housing urban renewal informs current policy and delivery.

Engaging users of Net Zero Precincts to have a say on the privacy of their data.

Increasing housing density and diversity through DIY development activity.

An ongoing post-industrial urban revitalisation project on Tasmania’s east coast.

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.

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

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

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

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

Making the urban environment safer and more liveable.

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.

Exploring the architectural and urban implications of the sharing economy.

What influences resident’s attitudes to infill housing proposals?

Porosity strategies for dynamic alternatives to dense development ambitions.

The potentials of catchment-scale thinking in urban infill situation in the context of climate change.

Exploring how urban manufacturers and cultural producers have adapted and survived in high-cost inner cities.

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

Cycles of water and land: design tactics for highly modified lowlands in coastal cities.

Cultural economies and local development: the role of return migrants.

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