Tagged: Cities

City Cooling - Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

  Australian heatwaves are getting hotter and more frequent, with the largest impacts occurring in cities due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The term UHI refers to how built up areas...

Water sensitive practice – how far has your organisation come in the last 5 years?

Transition Framework for Water Sensitive Cities Baw Baw Shire Council transitions workshop Transitions theory is a body of interdisciplinary research that the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities draw...

Supporting early adoption of Water Sensitive City research outcomes

  Kim Markwell and Celeste Morgan have been assisting the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities since June 2016 as the project leaders for Project D1.4 - Learning through demonstration and integrati...

Sponge Cities - China’s Green-Blue Approach to Urban Water Management

  Kunshan Cultural Plaza. Image: CRC Water Sensitive Cities Conventional city design has allowed society to thrive and grow in a range of challenging and often uninhabitable environments. ...