Getting the housing we want
Event | 21 November 2011 |
Former Victorian Premier, John Brumby, spoke with Grattan's Cities Program Director, Jane-Frances Kelly, at the launch of Grattan's latest report, Getting the housing we want. Our big cities are deadlocked. They continue to grow yet the market is not providing the housing that Australians say they want. Residents feel they have little say in how their neighbourhoods change: developers point to a range of barriers to building housing in established areas. Change is urgently needed. Grattan's new report offers a plan to make it happen.
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Getting the housing we want
Publication | 14 November 2011 | Jane-Frances Kelly
Grattan's new report, Getting the housing we want, proposes a new approach to city planning that allows our cities to grow while giving residents a real say in the future of their neighbourhoods.
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What Matters Most? - A Grattan Working Paper
Report | 19 September 2011 | Ben Weidmann and Jane-Frances Kelly
What Matters Most? shows that there are real differences in housing priorities across the population. In particular, while young families are focussed on house size and type, older and single-person households are much more likely to think that characteristics of where they live matter more. As the population ages and household size continues to decrease, these differences could result in significant shifts in the mix of housing we want.
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The Spirit of Cities
Event | 4 October 2011 | Prof Daniel Bell
Cities define us. They shape the outlooks, opportunities and lives of billions. Yet most contemporary political thought neglects their role. Daniel Bell thinks it is time to revive the thinking of the Greeks and rediscover the spirit of cities.
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The Housing We'd Choose - A Grattan Report
Publication | 20 June 2011 | Jane-Frances Kelly
The report presents original research on the housing preferences of Australians. The housing they would choose was a much more varied mix than either Sydney or Melbourne currently provides.
The second part of the report examines recent construction trends and argues that there are barriers to delivering more of the housing people say they want.
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The Housing We'd Choose Report Launch
Event | 27 June 2011 | Jane-Frances Kelly
Grattan Cities Program Director Jane-Frances Kelly in conversation with John Daley on the challenges to Australian cities and governments presented in The Housing We'd Choose.
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Current Trends in Civic Engagement in America
Event | 19 April 2011 | Professor Robert Putnam
Join Professor Robert Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, a pioneer of research in social capital, for an exploration of how communities have become increasingly disconnected and how they may reconnect. Grattan Institute, in association with The United States Studies Centre, and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government presented this seminar.
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The Social Life of Cities
Event | 8 November 2010 | Geoff Mulgan
Thinking about social design for cities is lagging behind thinking on economic and environmental issues. Yet history has shown us that without design that takes account of social needs, built environments can easily lead to isolated individuals and communities. All over the world developments are being demolished only a few decades after they were built because of poor understanding of human needs and social design. Design has to incorporate an understanding of how people live, what makes them feel they belong, and the right balance of interaction and privacy. Geoff Mulgan discussed these issues
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Consultation Key to Successful Cities
Publication | 20 October 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly
Big decisions await Australia's cities. The news seems to be that if we want to face our hard decisions in a way that makes our cities better places to live, involving residents is not optional. Our research shows that simply creating a new governance structure for cities will not solve our problems, and our best bet is to give city-dwellers a real say.
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Resilient Cities
Event | 28 October 2010 | Neil McInroy
Cities in Australia are facing a series of challenges, particularly relating to their next stages of growth. The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), based in Manchester, UK, helps cities and communities cope effectively with such challenges. CLES has recently laid out a "place resilience framework" - a partnership model for local government and other sectors to work together to develop a resilient economy. The framework has been piloted in 15 locations in the UK with fascinating results. At this Grattan seminar Neil discussed the findings of the CLES's resilience pilot, and suggest how Australian cities and places might prepare themselves better for upcoming challenges.
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Australian Cities: Liveable and Sustainable?
Event | 26 October 2010 | Peter Newton
Australian cities rate highly internationally on liveability and well-being indices. State and metropolitan governments are keen to promote the liveability of their cities as a means of attracting mobile capital, skilled labour and tourists. An examination of the liveability-environmental sustainability nexus, however, suggests that Australia's capital cities have gained their high liveability ratings while having high, and now unsustainable, levels of resource consumption.
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Cities: Who Decides? - A Grattan Report
Publication | 18 October 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly
Grattan Institute's second Cities program report is "Cities: Who Decides?". The report investigates decision making in eight of the world's most successful cities, and asks what governance arrangements accompanied their broad-based improvement.
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Cities: Who Decides? - A Grattan Report
Event | 19 October 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly
From population growth to climate change, the challenges facing Australia's cities are much talked about. Facing these challenges will involve making hard decisions. But very little attention is paid to how these decisions might be made. Jane-France Kelly discussed the issues raised in Grattan's report.
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The Cities We Need - A Grattan Report
Publication | 28 June 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly
This is the first report from our Cities Program, and aims to set an agenda for thinking about the future of Australia's cities. The report asks how our cities meet the individual needs of their residents, both material and psychological, and identifies emerging challenges to meeting these needs.
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A Liveable City
Publication | 17 June 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly and Helen Morrow
Melbourne often 'Tops the Pops' in the Most Liveable Cities of the World charts - but what don't those league tables look at? Jane-Frances Kelly and Helen Morrow explore the question of 'liveability' in an article published recently by the Victorian Council of Social Services.
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The Cities We Need - A Grattan Report
Event | 29 June 2010 | Jane-Frances Kelly
The most important characteristic of a city is whether it meets the needs of its residents, both material and psychological. Despite the fact that these needs are central to our lives, they are often at the periphery of conversations about the future of Australian cities. On Monday 28 June Grattan Institute released its report "The Cities We Need".
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People, Pride and Purpose
Event | 13 May 2010 | John McTernan
After decades of decline, Chicago, Glasgow and Manchester are experiencing a renaissance. Different cities have different stories to tell. However, three ingredients are common across all these cities; people, pride and purpose.
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American Cities: A 21st Century Urban Agenda
Event | 17 March 2010 | Henry Cisneros
State and Federal governments in the U.S. have grappled for decades with urban issues such as urban regeneration and affordable housing. As Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration, Henry Cisneros was at the centre of these efforts. Mr Cisneros talked about the challenges facing urban areas in the U.S. today. Drawing on direct experience with the current White House team, he discussed the shape of the Obama Administration's new urban agenda.
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Changing Social Needs and Innovative Ways to Meet Them
Event | 4 February 2010 | Geoff Mulgan
Dr Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation, is one of the world's leading experts on social and organisational innovation. Straight from ANZSOG, he gave a mid afternoon seminar for Grattan Institute, sharing his knowledge about social and organisational innovation, what it is and how to it can be applied in Australian cities. He discussed his current research on the changing social needs of society.
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Governing Growing Cities
Event | 1 December 2009 | Duncan Maclennan
Australia is famously one of the most urbanised countries in the world, with our cities producing the bulk of GDP and jobs. Today our cities are on the front line of responding to climate change, and are projected to significantly increase in size.
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