The Australian Urban Observatory (AUO) is an innovative digital platform that transforms complex urban data into easily understood liveability maps across Australia’s 21 largest cities.
We reviewed state government urban planning policies related to liveability in Sydney,
Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth and presented the first ‘baseline’ measure of liveability in these cities.
This project reviewed state-based urban planning policies across five liveability domains (alcohol, food, public open space, transport, walkability) and explored the relationships between these policies and health outcomes. Download the Findings Brief PDF to learn how important liveability measures are for health.
This report summarises recent Australian evidence, and uses modelling to estimate the economic value of specific changes in urban form in the Australian context.
In this video, Professor Billie Giles-Corti talks about a research project that is developing ways to measure the key factors that make our cities liveable and healthy.