Tag: Urban Planning
Creating ‘sponge cities’ to cope with more rainfall needn’t cost billions...
ANALYSIS: By Timothy Welch, University of Auckland
Tune into news from about any part of the planet, and there will likely be a headline about...
Parkop challenges ‘least liveable cities’ ranking for Port Moresby
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has challenged Port Moresby’s almost bottom ranking in the 2021 edition of The Economist Intelligence...
Climate Change Commission calls on NZ to take ‘immediate, decisive action’
ANALYSIS: By James Renwick, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission this week released its long-anticipated advice to the...
Port Moresby evicts 400 squatters to make way for new capital...
By Miriam Zarriga and Clifford Faiparik
About 400 squatters in Papua New Guinea watched helplessly as excavators demolished their homes and properties to make way...
Sydney declares a climate emergency – what does that mean in...
ANALYSIS: By Chris Turney in Sydney
Late on Monday night, the City of Sydney became the first state capital in Australia to officially declare a...
Crisis? What crisis? A new PNG prime minister might not signal...
BACKGROUND: By Jonathan Ritchie of Deakin University
In recent days, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has announced his resignation, failed to formally resign,...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
