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UNSW Cities Institute
Brokers for action: Building governance systems for smart, healthier and more equitable urban environments in the region
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Research Institute
Challenge
The Asia-Pacific region has become home to more than half the world’ s population, with internal migration producing new populations in cities and new spatial arrangements. There is an urgency around enabling city systems to transition at pace to respond to the impact on equity, health equity and wellbeing.
Solution
The institute bridges new knowledge with practice and policy, and strategically accompanies key partners to support Countrycentred and community-determined outcomes through:
• First Nations focus: ambitious First Nations-led research to practice
• applied research: contemporary city challenges
• education: executive education, lifelong learning and capacity bridging
• innovation and research for social impact.
Target customers / end-users
• Australian government( federal, state, local) needing evidencebased urban policy
• industry( developers, architects, urban planners, urban designers, health / tech) requiring data, impact assessment in APAC.
• non-government organisations and international bodies( WHO, AFHC, ASEAN) collaborating on healthy, resilient and smart cities
• communities.
Progress
• convened roundtables with mayors and local government officials in the APAC around urban governance
• convened First Nations workshops with community working between First Nations politics and Country projects
• developing lifelong learning.
Multidisciplinary team
Industry advisory board
Cross-sector networks
Housing & Connected Communities
The Cities Institute brings together new knowledge and practice to support placespecific and communitydetermined outcomes for the better governance of cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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