CITY LIVING
Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?
A smart light pole in the UK can also recognise faces and numberplates and detect speeding. Nazlika/Wikimedia CommonSmart street furniture – powered and digitally...
CITY LIVING
What next for parklets? It doesn’t have to be a permanent switch back to parking
Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Author providedOutdoor dining on former parking spaces – generally known as parklets – has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reduced demand for...
AROUND THE HOUSE
Flat Findings: A Cheat Sheet For First-Time Apartment Living
Living in an apartment is one of the most practical, cost-effective and low-maintenance ways of setting up your first home. Apartments are easy to...
CITY LIVING
4 ways our streets can rescue restaurants, bars and cafes after coronavirus
Picture: Nils Versemann/Shutterstock
As Australia re-opens, the bars, cafes and restaurants that give life to our streets face a tough ask: stay open and stay...
CITY LIVING
Smart city or not? Now you can see how yours compares
Smart is as smart does. f11photo/Shutterstock
The highest-ranked areas in an Australia-wide assessment of smart city performance are all in metropolitan regions with higher population...
CITY LIVING
The old road rules no longer apply: how e-scooters challenge outdated assumptions
E-scooters are increasingly used for urban transport, but the
road rules treat them as recreational devices and their users
as pedestrians. haireena/Shutterstock
Many people want changes...
CITY LIVING
As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis
Melbourne is one Australian city that’s moving to improve its
waste management and reduce its reliance on trucks to collect
waste. TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock
Total global...
CITY LIVING
Smart Bus Services: An Eco-Friendly Alternative to Ride Hailing?
Back in June, an Egyptian transportation startup Swvl raised a series B funding of $42 million. The company aspires to be an international leader...
CITY LIVING
Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first
If a vehicle was coming through this intersection would this pedestrian have right
of way? Stephen Di Donato/Good Free Photos
You are walking east on...
CITY LIVING
To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a ‘micro-mobility’ network
In cities like Copenhagen that have good infrastructure for
cycling.it’s an established commuting option alongside road and rail. Wikimedia Commons
We all know the...
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