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25.01.2022 Hope to see you at the CREs last major public event in Brisbane

24.01.2022 How does your suburb compare? Launched today, the new Australian Urban Observatory transforms eight years of urban research and data into simple liveability map...s. The easy-to-use maps can help policy makers, planners, developers and anyone else interested in understanding liveability in Australian cities. #liveabilecities

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Billie Giles-Corti and Belen Zapata Diomedi who will be leading a new UK Medical Research Council and the Australian National Health and Medi...cal Research Council (NHMRC) funded project with urban experts from the University of Cambridge. The new project will examine the links between the built environment, transport and other health-behaviour to develop computer models that can better inform urban and transport planning policy and practice in Australia and the UK. Read more here https://bit.ly/2ZC1as7

22.01.2022 Prof Billie Giles-Corti and Dr Cecily Maller from RMIT's Healthy Liveable Cities Group speak to VicHealth about how to plan for better community health and wellbeing. https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au//vh-letter-48-planning-fo

22.01.2022 A message to city, urban and transport planners, the solution is simple. New research further validates that a variety of walkable destinations, that support our living needs, have the potential to encourage us to walk more. Read more below in this article co-written by HLC Principal Research Fellow, Hannah Badland. http://theconversation.com/its-easy-to-get-us-walking-more-

22.01.2022 Billie was recently intereviewed by International Society for Urban Health Conversations, the only podcast focusing exclusively on the broad factors of urban health. In this episode, Dr. Yonette Thomas, the Executive Director of ISUH and Host, Mark Sylvester, talk to Billie and other urban health influencers to capture their ideas and continue to advance the knowledge of urban health. #urbanhealth #healthyliveablecities #rmit https://itunes.apple.com//international-soci/id1434614627

20.01.2022 Congratulations Billie!

18.01.2022 Meet some of the HLC female heros and our colleagues within the Centre of Urban Research. http://cur.org.au//meet-the-women-helping-plan-the-cities/

16.01.2022 Our population is expected to double in the next 30 years. So how do we design liveable cities where high-density housing works? Billie Giles-Corti, Director of... RMITs Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform explains why high density is crucial to the health and wellbeing of Australians. Thanks to the @NationalHeartFoundation for this great video. See more

16.01.2022 EARLY BIRD EXTENDED! The early bird offer on our Integrating Health and Planning short course, endorsed by the Planning Institute of Australia, has been extended to June 14th 2019. Learn more about the Integrating Health and Planning intensive course in the video below from our Director, Professor Billie Giles-Corti. To enrol, visit http://bit.ly/IHPshortcourse https://vimeo.com/340117309

16.01.2022 "The reason we’ve lost the mantle of most liveable city is because we’ve lost the art of replicating the cherished inner-neighbourhoods of Melbourne."

16.01.2022 Released today and co-authored by many members of the HLC team, this terrific piece of work compares brownfield and greenfield developments and investigates the physical activity-related health and economic benefits of building walkable neighbourhoods. https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com//10.1186/s12966-019-0775-8

15.01.2022 The August edition of 'The Urban Observer' is out now. Read about some of the brilliant work coming out of our Centre, particularly our team - the Healthy Liveable Cities Group!

15.01.2022 "The reason weve lost the mantle of most liveable city is because weve lost the art of replicating the cherished inner-neighbourhoods of Melbourne."

14.01.2022 The team has today released a new report measuring Melbournes liveability progress which calls for a redistribution of employment across the city to reduce commute times, ease traffic congestion and encourage more physical activity.

14.01.2022 Housing affordability, walkability, access to public transport and education, bike paths - these are things that matter to Melburnians, but they're not what the The Economist Intelligence Units Global Liveability Index actually looks at, says our RMIT Healthy Liveable Cities Group

14.01.2022 We have allowed our cities to grow into unsustainable low-density urban sprawls that are bad for people's health and the environment. We need to design our citi...es differently, but are we up for the challenge? Hear more from Director, Urban Futures ECP, Professor Billie Giles-Corti at RMIT's Engaging for Impact 4-6 February. More info: http://rmitefi.com.au

14.01.2022 With Australia's population hitting the 25 million mark, there is serious concern about our city planning. According to HLC's Dr Melanie Davern, 'the way we're planning now, we are not going to produce a long-term sustainable, healthy city,". Watch the video here:

11.01.2022 Competition has always been fierce between Melbourne and Sydney but now we can understand the differences using objective data. http://theconversation.com/melbourne-or-sydney-this-is-how-

11.01.2022 International research is clear. Stimulating and positive environments early in life provide optimal foundations for childrens ongoing development into adulthood. This in turn makes a difference to the productivity of society at large. https://theconversation.com/working-out-what-makes-a-good-c

11.01.2022 Dr Sarah Foster and her team recently launched their study looking at whether state government design policies for apartments help to improve people's mental health and wellbeing. Read their feature published in Domain to learn more. https://www.domain.com.au//can-the-design-of-an-apartmen/

10.01.2022 There's been a flurry of media interest in the HLC team over the last two weeks and tonight you can tune into Billie on the Channel 10 news from 5pm. Billie spoke to Chanel 10 about why Melbourne has lost its most liveable city in the world title to Vienna.

09.01.2022 A new report by our Healthy Liveable Cities group measuring Brisbanes liveability progress has found its residents have the worst access to public transport in Australia. Find out more https://bit.ly/2P7oy7D

09.01.2022 The team released the Sydney scorecard today which summarises the findings from the Creating Liveable Cities Report released last year. It has been a brilliant team effort to produce these scorecards along with support from our collaborators from UWA and ACU. Read some of the findings in the article below from the The Sydney Morning Herald.

09.01.2022 An exciting PhD Scholarship opportunity within the HLC team. Apply now! https://www.rmit.edu.au//phd-scholarship-in-understanding-

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Maureen Murphy who submitted her PhD thesis yesterday - here she is collecting her much coveted University of Melbourne PhD balloon! Maureen was supervised by RMIT HLC team members Hannah Badland and Billie Giles-Corti, as well as Helen Jordan and Javad Koohsari. Well done Maureen!

09.01.2022 Can video games like SimCity help smart city design? Dr Claire Boulange explains how planning can be playful to build healthy liveable cities for all in the new online course, Integrating Health and Planning.

09.01.2022 Congratulations to our Healthy Liveable Cities Group for taking home the Planning Institute of Australia Cutting Edge Research and Teaching award for their landmark report Creating Liveable Cities in Australia. Well done team! http://ow.ly/WxQZ50jNNiX

08.01.2022 The HLC team congratulates our very own Amanda Alderton (pictured) and Melissa Berry (previous work experience student) who both graduated with Master of Public Health degrees. A further congratulations also to Amanda for commencing her RMIT PhD scholarship as she continues working with A/Prof Hannah Badland and others in the HLC team. Well done Amanda and Melissa!

07.01.2022 Launched today at RMIT University's signature research and innovation event, #EFI2020, the Australian Urban Observatory, a new groundbreaking digital platform is set to transform how we map liveability in major cities across the country, in an Australian first.

07.01.2022 Congratulations to 'Dr' Geoff Browne who graduated from UoM on Friday. Geoff was supervised by Billie and Melanie D. and did a major piece of work of the use of evidence by local government authorities. Well done Geoff!

04.01.2022 Living liveable, watch what residents had to say about life on the urban fringe in this short film produced by HLC team members; Leila Mahmoudi Farahani, Billie Giles-Corti, Cecily Maller and ACU's Melanie Lowe. http://theconversation.com/living-liveable-this-is-what-res

03.01.2022 Congratulations to the RMIT Healthy Liveable Cities Group and The University of Western Australia for winning the Planning Institute of Australia's national res...earch excellence award for their Creating Liveable Cities report. Thank you for all your outstanding work on this landmark project. Well done! See more