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Healthy Spaces and Places

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
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    • 0 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

The Healthy Spaces and Places project is a unique collaboration between the Australian Local Government Association, the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Planning Institute of Australia with funding assistance from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Healthy Spaces and Places identifies key design principles and processes to assist in the design and development of places that support active living and establishes the relationship between the built environment and physical and mental health and wellbeing.
 

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Healthy places

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
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    • 4 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Our environment affects our health in many ways.  It can promote our health (e.g. by encouraging us to be active or to connect with other people), or it can damage our health (e.g. by exposing us to pollutants or to increased risks of motor vehicle injury). 


 

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Innovative transport modes

  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 2 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Although conventional road transport is an essential element in any new development, supplementary transport options can be considered to achieve the full potential of planned developments.   

 
 

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Tools and rating systems for land developers

  • Site Ecology
  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
  • Access and Transport
  • Materials and Recycling
  • Water Management
  • Energy Management
  • Sustainablity Management
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This factsheet showcases some of the existing tools that are available to guide land developers in achieving more sustainable subdivision or precinct-scale development. It is likely that we will see more emphasis on tools and rating systems for this scale of development in Australia in the near future.

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Heritage and Culture

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This fact sheet provides information on how heritage issues may relate to your development. It addresses; what is heritage?; why heritage is important; how to determine what aspects of heritage are important; what if my site is on a heritage list or register?; and how to manage heritage in your development.

 

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Mobility Management: Design for Active Transport

  • Access and Transport
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

This Fact Sheet provides suggestions and is intended to advise how residential development participants can help deliver better environments for walking, cycling and using public transport. Ideally, new developments have viable access and transport options are always a viable choice, so transport impacts are lessened throughout the life of developments.

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Energy efficiency - influence of design

  • Estate Design
  • Energy Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Energy is money. Energy efficiency is not only a way of conserving energy: it is also fundamental to good and profitable project development and design in a broader sense. It conserves financial resources over time, and can boost profits. A high degree of efficiency translates into a low level of waste: this simple ratio has wide-ranging benefits in environmental and economic terms, supports the interests of developers, planning agencies, buyers and tenants - and brings tangible advantages to the project approval, marketing and sales processes.

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Successful Public Spaces

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
    • Content rating:
    • 4 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

The purpose of this factsheet is to describe the basic principles and qualities of successful public places. The principles and dimensions are covered in this introduction whilst the qualities are discussed in the contexts of key issues and best practice processes within the project development phases.
 

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Community facilities

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

Sustainable development incorporates not just the environmental aspects of sustainability, but also important social dimensions. Community facilities are one element of the social infrastructure that new developments can provide, and as such they can play a key role in contributing to a socially sustainable community.

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Ecological footprint

  • Site Ecology
  • Climate Change Adaption
  • Sustainablity Management
    • Content rating:
    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

The ecological footprint or 'eco-footprint' is a tool to measure our ecological performance. It tracks how much individuals, organisations, cities, regions and a nation consume and compares this amount to the resources nature can provide.

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