Publications by authors named "Alan Both"
Article Synopsis
- - The study analyzed urban liveability in Australia by looking at various factors like access to public transport, open spaces, and housing affordability in nearly 40,000 residential areas across major cities.
- - It found that inner-city areas generally offered a higher quality of liveability compared to outer suburbs, and disadvantaged areas in big metropolitan cities were less liveable than their advantaged counterparts, which was not the case in smaller cities.
- - The research suggests using local data to shape policies aimed at addressing these liveability inequalities, particularly to prevent marginalized communities from becoming concentrated in less desirable suburban areas as cities expand and gentrify.
Hot weather not only impacts upon human physical comfort and health, but also impacts the way that people access and experience active travel options such as walking and cycling. By evaluating the street thermal environment of a city alongside an assessment of those communities that are the most vulnerable to the effects of heat, we can prioritise areas in which heat mitigation interventions are most needed. In this paper, we propose a new approach for policy makers to determine where to delegate limited resources for heat mitigation with most effective outcomes for the communities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since the late 19th century, city planners have struggled to cope with new types of urban transport and mobility that threatened the existing system, or even rendered it obsolete.
Purpose: As city planners confront the range of disruptive urban mobilities currently on the horizon, this paper explores how we can draw on a vast body of evidence to anticipate and avoid unintended consequences to people's health and wellbeing
Methods: This commentary involved a rapid review of the literature on transport disruption.
Results: We found that to avoid the unintended consequences of disruption, research, policy and practice must think beyond single issues (such as the risk of chronic disease, injury, or traffic management) and consider the broader consequences of interventions.