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Browse Fact Sheets by topic: Place Making and Social Sustainability

Healthy Spaces and Places

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
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    • 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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Design for Open Space

  • Site Ecology
  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
  • Estate Design
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    • 3 stars
    • Commissioned Content: Commissioned Content

New residential estates need an integrated and connected open space network that meets the needs of residents and surrounding habitats and to provide a variety of recreational opportunities whilst addressing local catchment and stormwater management needs.  Within an estate, open space provides opportunities to preserve and enhance natural elements of a site, facilitate social interactions and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

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Walkable neighbourhoods

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

Walkable neighbourhoods have implications for sustainability because developments that are walkable reduce incentives to drive, conserve scarce resources, and lower environmental impacts.

Co-author: Leah Mason

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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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Safety

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

This fact sheet outlines the principles and strategies that promote the creation of safer communities. The concept of Safer Design (also known as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design – CPTED) forms the basis of this fact sheet.  


 

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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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Sense of place and community ownership

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

This fact sheet examines the issues of sense of place using a case study of various aspects of the Ellenbrook development in Western Australia. This development has won several prestigious awards for its design and community engagement processes and serves as a role model for greenfield development projects in Australia.

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Cohousing

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

Cohousing is a major strategic category of the movement back to community known as ‘Intentional Community’. Both the community and the intention are critical to understanding and implementing such projects.

 

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EcoVillages

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

EcoVillages intend to demonstrate transformative eco-socio-economic  spiritual community.

This fact sheet provides a working knowledge of Sustainable Community Development (SCD), especially EcoVillages and considers SCD opportunities for the development industry. 
 

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Heritage and Culture

  • Place Making and Social Sustainability
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    • 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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