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Shutterstock In the face of the global health and climate crises, we look at our cities both anxiously and hopefully. We deviate from our normal patterns of behaviour to avoid close physical contact and suffer associated emotional and…

Sustainability

For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up

Jason Alexandra, PhD candidate, RMIT University Jul 16, 2019

Melbourne has a rich legacy of urban parks thanks to planning decisions made when the city was first established. Shutterstock Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle…

Building

Inbound International Tourist Arrivals to Canada Hits New Record Through End of 2018: Report

Building May 30, 2019

Within the latest INNvestment Canada Hotel Report by Colliers International Hotels, the Canadian Tourism Snapshot segment reports that Canada hit a multi-decade low in 2009 for inbound international tourists with 15.7 million overnight…

Building

Oxford Properties acquires major portfolio of Australian office buildings

Building Dec 14, 2018

Oxford Properties Group, a premier global real estate investment, development and management company based in Toronto, Canada, today announced that it has closed its A$3.4 billion (C$3.3 billion) take-private acquisition of the Investa…

Urban Planning

Sexism and the city: how urban planning has failed women

Dorina Pojani, Dorothy Wardale, Kerry Brown Apr 18, 2018

In the past, women lived and worked in extended families and intimate communities, which were supportive of women’s lives but also restricted them. Families minded children and took care of the old and disabled, but also vetoed marriages…

Building

Manulife enters Australian real estate market with Melbourne purchase

Building Feb 1, 2018

Manulife Real Estate today announced that it has acquired 800 Collins Street, a 14-storey, 317,335 square foot, Class A office tower located in Melbourne, Australia. 800 Collins Street was built in 2010 and is fully leased. This transaction…

Australia

Innovation districts like Melbourne’s could help chart our course out of crisis

For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up

Inbound International Tourist Arrivals to Canada Hits New Record Through End of 2018: Report

Oxford Properties acquires major portfolio of Australian office buildings

Sexism and the city: how urban planning has failed women

Manulife enters Australian real estate market with Melbourne purchase