Centre for
Urban and Regional Studies
Past projects
Transforming cities: city lives, city natures, city politics
- Climate change and urban transitions
- Park matters: performing nature in the Australian city
- Images of Home: Children’s Creative Response to the Changing Landscape of Officer (VIC)
- Making Sense of Climate Change: Home, Community Engagement and a Sensory Approach
- Neighbourhood/Housing/Home as Practice
Sustaining urban and regional communities and environments
- Cultures of environmental management and regulation
- Developing a Regional Resilience Monitor
- Economic diversity and ethical economies
- Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region
- Geographies of belonging
- Grassroots economic activism through food-based community enterprises
- Quality of Life in Baw Baw Shire (Victoria)
- Rural climate change adaptation
- Local attitudes to changing land use - the Narrabri Shire
- The Role of Festivals and Events in Creating Community Cohesion
- Reconfiguring the Enterprise: Shifting Manufacturing Culture in Australia
- Re-drawing the Economy: Creating Place-Based Images That Can Travel
- Taking Back the Economy
Critical development studies
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.