HENRY HALLORAN TRUST The Urban Housing Lab@Sydney is funded under the Henry Halloran Trust s research incubator scheme, which includes three year s support to develop a research platform for examining housing market dynamics in Sydney and potential levers for change.
About Urban Housing Lab The Urban Housing Lab@Sydney is funded under the Henry Halloran Trust s research incubator scheme, which includes three year s support to develop a research platform for examining housing market dynamics in Sydney and potential levers for change. Led by Professor Nicole Gurran (urban policy and housing) and Dr Somwrita Sarkar (complex networks, computational models), research fostered within the Incubator will connect to wider scholarship on urban governance, planning, infrastructure, the market and big-data analytics while distilling key implications for policy and practice. Context Profound global demographic and economic shifts particularly international flows of people and capital are reshaping the urban system. These shifts impose new burdens on the ageing urban infrastructure of 20 th Century cities, which have struggled to accommodate population growth and change. Economically successful global cities which attract high income earners for their unique amenity and accessibility, face particular challenges as housing values rise, displacing younger knowledge and keyworker groups. While many global cities including New York and London, regard affordability as a critical component of urban infrastructure, in Sydney, affordable housing has struggled to gain policy traction. Wider questions about the capacity for the existing housing stock particularly larger homes in outer suburban locations to accommodate population growth and change remain unanswered. In this context, Urban Housing Lab will build a research agenda to inform urban and housing policy. Research fostered within the Lab will examine how critical urban governance frameworks, policy decisions, and planning processes shape housing outcomes; relationships between urban form, transport, and housing affordability, and new policy approaches and levers to deliver a better mix of housing options that respond to changing demographic needs and affordability constraints. People Professor Nicole Gurran http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/people/profiles/nicole.gurran.php Dr Somwrita Sarkar http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/people/profiles/somwrita.sarkar.php Dr Jennifer Kent (Research Fellow) Catherine Gilbert (Research Associate, PhD candidate) Sha Liu (PhD candidate) Sachinkumar Wasnik (Research Associate, PhD candidate) Hanley Weng (Research Associate) Stacey Miers (Research Associate) Dr Danika Wright (Sydney Business School, Finance and Real Estate advisor to Urban Housing Lab@Sydney) http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/danikaw See over for recent publications by the Urban Housing Lab@Sydney team More information? nicole.gurran@sydney.edu.au
An example of the Lab s prior collaboration: Approvals and completion times against number of dwellings approved Hanley Weng, Somwrita Sarkar, Nicole Gurran, Stacey Miers, 2014, Inforgraphic from Urban Lab@Sydney, HHT Blue Sky Project. Recent publications by the Urban Housing Lab team Urban Policy, Housing and Planning Gurran, N., Gilbert, C., & Phibbs, P. (2014). Sustainable development control? Zoning and land use regulations for urban form, biodiversity conservation and green design in Australia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (ahead-of-print), 1-26, accepted 14 September 2014. Gurran, N., Austin, P., & Whitehead, C. (2014). That sounds familiar! A decade of planning reform in Australia, England and New Zealand. Australian Planner, 51(2), 186-198. Hamin, E. M., Gurran, N., & Emlinger, A. M. (2014). Barriers to Municipal Climate Adaptation: Examples From Coastal Massachusetts Smaller Cities and Towns. Journal of the American Planning Association, 80(2), 110-122.
Ruming, K., & Gurran, N. (2014). Australian planning system reform. Australian Planner, 51(2), 102-107. Ruming, K. J., Gurran, N., Maginn, P. J., & Goodman, R. (2014). A national planning agenda? Unpacking the influence of federal urban policy on state planning reform. Australian Planner, 51(2), 108-121. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2014.894105 van den Nouwelant, R., Davison, G., Gurran, N., Pinnegar, S., & Randolph, B. (2014). Delivering affordable housing through the planning system in urban renewal contexts: converging government roles in Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales. Australian Planner, 1-13. Austin, P., Gurran, N., & Whitehead, C. E. (2013). Planning and affordable housing in Australia, New Zealand and England: common culture; different mechanisms. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10901-013-9356-3 Gurran, N., & Phibbs, P. (2013). Evidence-free zone? Examining claims about planning performance and reform in New South Wales. Australian Planner, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2013.833121 Gurran, N., & Phibbs, P. (2013). Housing supply and urban planning reform: the recent Australian experience, 2003 2012. International Journal of Housing Policy, 1-27. Gurran, N. (2013). Planning, housing supply and affordability, Virtual Special Issue Editorial. Urban Policy and Research, Virtual Special Issue July 2013. http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/cupr-vsi Computational modeling, spatial complex systems and networks Dong, A. and Sarkar, S., 2015, Forecasting technological progress potential based on the complexity of product knowledge, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 90B, pp. 599-610. Robinson, P. A., Sarkar, S., Pandejee, G. M., and Henderson, J.A., 2014, Determination of effective brain connectivity from functional connectivity with application to resting state connectivities, Physical Review E, 90(1), 012707. Sarkar, S., Dong, A., Henderson, J. A., and Robinson, P. A., 2013, Spectral characterization of hierarchical modularity in product architectures, Journal of Mechanical Design, 136(1), 011006, doi: 10.1115/1.4025490. Sarkar, S., Dong, A., Henderson, J. A., and Robinson, P. A., 2013, Spectral characterization of hierarchical network modularity and limits of modularity detection, PLoS One, 8(1), e54383, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054383. Dong, A., Sarkar, S., Yang, M.C., and Honda, T., 2013, A linguistic approach to assess the dynamics of design team preference in concept selection, Research in Engineering Design, 25, pp. 75-92. Dong, A., Sarkar, S., Nichols, C., and Kvan, T., 2012, The capability approach as a framework for the assessment of policies toward civic engagement in design, Design Studies, 34(3), pp.326-344. Sarkar, S., Dong, A. and Gero, J.S., 2010, Learning symbolic formulations in design: Syntax, semantics, knowledge reification, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), 24(1): 63-85. Sarkar, S., Dong, A. and Gero, J.S., 2009, Design optimization problem reformulation using singular value decomposition, Journal of Mechanical Design, 131(8): 081006 (10 pages).
Sarkar, S. and Dong, A., 2011, Community detection in graphs using singular value decomposition, Physical Review E, 83(4), 046114 (16 pages). Sarkar, S., 2014, Spectral (re)-construction of urban street networks: Generative design using global information from structure, Design Computing and Cognition 14, Springer, accepted, 6 March 2014. Sarkar, S. and Robinson, P. A., 2014, Clustering and modularity in self-organized networks, Guided Self-organization: Inception, Springer Series on Emergence, Complexity, and Computation, ed. M. Propkopenko, pp. 455-468. Dong, A. and Sarkar, S., 2012, Generalized design knowledge and higher order singular value decomposition, in J.S. Gero (ed.), Design Computing and Cognition 12, Springer, pp. 415-432. Urban Planning and Transportation in the City Kent, J.L. & Wheeler, A., What can Built Environment and Health Professionals Learn from Crime Prevention in Planning? Introducing HPTED, Urban Policy and Research, in press accepted 23 February, 2015. Dowling, R. & Kent, J.L. (2015). "Practice and public private partnerships in sustainable transport governance: The case of car sharing in Sydney, Australia." Transport Policy 40(2015): 58-64. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0967070x15000347 Thompson, S., Kent, J.L. & Lyons, C. (2014). Building partnerships for healthy environments: research, leadership and education. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. DOI:10.1071/HE14039 Kent, J.L. (2014). Still Feeling the Car the role of comfort in sustaining private car use. Mobilities DOI:10.1080/17450101.2014.944400#.VBJeUfmSyPY Kent, J.L. (2014) Driving to save time or saving time to drive? The enduring appeal of the private car. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 65, 103-115. Kent, J. L. (2014) Carsharing as active transport: What are the potential health benefits?, Journal of Transport & Health, 1(1), 54-62. Kent, J. L. & Thompson, S. (2014) The Three Domains of Urban Planning for Health and Well-Being, Journal of Planning Literature, 29(3), 239-256. Thompson, S., & Kent, J.L. (2014) Healthy Built Environments Supporting Everyday Occupations: Current Thinking in Urban Planning, Journal of Occupational Science, 21:1, 25-41. Kent, J. L. & Dowling, R. (2013) Puncturing automobility? Carsharing practices, Journal of Transport Geography, 32, 86-92. Thompson, S.M. & Kent, J.L. (2013) 'Connecting and strengthening communities in places for health and well-being', Australian Planner, 1-12. Residential Real Estate Research Frino A, Lepone G and Wright D 2015 'Investor Characteristics and the Disposition Effect', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol.31, pp. 1-12 Wright D 2014 'Superstition and prices in residential real estate transactions', 2014 Auckland Finance Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 20th December 2014
Wright D 2014 'Superstition and prices in residential real estate transactions', IFMA International Conference on Finance, Bali, Indonesia, 17th December 2014 Wright D and Lepone G 2014 'Investor behaviour and lottery stocks', World Finance Conference, Venice, Italy, 4th July 2014 Lepone A and Wright D 2014 'Capital Market Structures and Comparisons', Expert s report for the Financial Services Council of Australia Wright D 2014 'Indices, Investments and Ideology: 50 Years of Residential Real Estate Research, AFAANZ Behavioural Finance SIG, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 July 2014 Wright D 2014 'The Auction Pricing Effect Revisited, Unversita G. D Annunzio, Pescara, Italy, 30 June 2014. Opinion pieces Gurran, N. & Phibbs, P. (2014). Going Bananas Over Affordable Housing, The Conversation. Opinion piece, 24/8/14 http://theconversation.com/goingbananas-over-affordable-housing-30029 Gurran, N. & Phibbs, P. (2014). Living on the Block and other housing Fantasies, The Conversation. Opinion piece, 24/2/14, https://theconversation.com/living-onthe-block-and-other-housing-fantasies-23252 Chui, R, & Gurran, N. (2013). China plans 36 million affordable homes. Lessons for Australia, The Conversation. Opinion piece, 3/12/13, https://theconversation.com/china-plans-36-million-affordable-homes-lessonsfor-australia-19710 *Gurran, N., & Phibbs, P. (2013). Home equity: Australia's growing wealth divide, The Conversation. Opinion piece, 9/9/13, https://theconversation.com/homeequity-australias-growing-wealth-divide-17697 Gurran, N., & Phibbs, P. (2013). Home truths: Are planners really to blame for our housing shortage?, The Conversation, (Opinion Piece) 12/3/13, https://theconversation.com/home-truths-are-planners-really-to-blame-for-ourhousing-shortage-12723. *Gurran, N.. (2013). The boomer housing bust: Coming to Australia? The Conversation. (Opinion piece), 8/4/13, https://theconversation.com/the-boomerhousing-bust-coming-to-australia-13186. Gurran, N. (2013). A more sustainable Australia: from suburbia to newburbia. The Conversation. (Opinion piece), https://theconversation.com/a-more-sustainableaustralia-from-suburbia-to-newburbia-16841. Kent, J.L. (2015) ' Higher-density living can make us healthier, but not on its own' The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/higher-density-living-can-makeus-healthier-but-not-on-its-own-34920 Kent, J.L. and Dowling, R. (2014) 1000 Cars and No Garage why does car sharing work? The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/1-000-cars-andno-garage-why-car-sharing-works-31179 Kent, J.L. (2014) To get people out of cars we need to know why they drive The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/to-get-people-out-of-cars-we-needto-know-why-they-drive-27279
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