Irish urban history: an agenda

Irish surgeons and Australian history.

IRISH blood, flowing in the veins of the Australian nation, makes it different from other races of the old Empire. Much of the Irish heritage of courage, warmth, good humour, love of song and poetry, and argument, and Irish hospitality, permeates our national character. It has seemed to me that we do not appreciate each other as close relatives and members of a family as we should, and that we ...

Urban Governance in Pacific Island Countries: Advancing an Overdue Agenda

Over the past decade there has been an evident shift in the attitudes of Pacific peoples, governments and donors to the continued urbanisation of the region and the serious challenges emerging as a result. While not denying the obvious needs of rural development, and the connection rural poverty has with the pace and character of urban development, the region’s cities are clearly, and belatedly...

Reflections towards an agenda for urban-designing the digital city

This article deals with the increasingly digital augmentation of urban space and looks at how so far initiatives in this sense have been deployed in a way that is disconnected from urban design knowledge and practice. The aim here is to contribute to a reflection on how urban design perspectives can – and should – play an important role in informing such developments. It promotes, through a ser...

Towards an urban agenda in the European Union

Environmently Responsive Education in Urban History

Admiration for environment in general needs to be profoundly rooted in an understanding of History. Urban history is unique not only in the fact that it reflects climate but also in that it cuts across many different fields. In most schools of urban studies many aspects of science and technology are taught with relation to design in order to attain skills for practice. During a student’s later ...