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Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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Improving wellbeing in NSW: Insights and recommendations from the SGS Cities and Regions Wellbeing Index

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One year on: Reflections on the ESG Reporting Standard for the Communing Housing Industry

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SGS Economics and Planning Economic and health benefits of walking

The economics of walking deserves far more attention

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Health

Helping people to walk safely and efficiently around Melbourne’s CBD is vital to a strong economy. Nearly every week we see the costs and benefits of road infrastructure modelled to inform investment decisions but very little is said about the benefits of making it easier and safer for people to get around on foot.

SGS Economics and Planning Luke Nicholls

We are delighted to welcome Luke Nicholls to our team

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We are delighted to announce that Luke Nicholls is joining our SGS team from July 2018 to lead project delivery across Western Sydney and work with us to grow our team and our impact. Luke is an experienced City Planner with over 20 years in local government strategic planning, management, project delivery and environmental law. He has been Director of Planning and Environment at major local authorities in Western Sydney as well as for the regional city of Port Macquarie. Luke was a key part of our team from 2011-2014 when he held various roles including Sydney Practice Leader, Principal and CEO. We're excited to welcome Luke back!

SGS Economics and Planning Metropolitan Imperative Book

SGS contributes to important new book on metropolitan governance

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Who should govern Australia's cities? Marcus Spiller, Laura Schmahmann and Rhys Murrian contribute to a new book which makes a case for establishing metropolitan governance in Australia.

SGS Economics and Planning Innovation Precinct Paper

From alleys to valleys: creating innovation precincts through inclusive policy

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Arts and Culture, Education, Employment

Public policy literature overwhelmingly focuses on premium inner-city innovation precincts - but planned innovation outside typical inner-city innovation precincts is both important and possible. In this paper, we identify what makes planned innovation precincts successful and recommend that policymakers consider different policy mixes to support innovation in both the alleys of the cities and the valleys of the regions.

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Development contributions for affordable housing: theory and implementation

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Housing

This paper has two purposes: to provide a clear justification in planning and economic theory for affordable housing contributions and to propose specific mechanisms by which affordable housing contributions can be efficiently and equitably generated via the planning and development assessment process.

SGS Economics and Planning Parking problems2

Parking problems: An economics perspective

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Transport

For as long as we have had cars in cities, we have needed to find places to park them. But how should we manage the allocation of valuable urban land for car parking? Part of the answer can be found in paid parking and the economics behind it.

SGS Economics and Planning acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia and on whose Country we live and work. We acknowledge that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia never ceded their sovereignty, and are one of the oldest continuing living cultures on Earth, have one of the oldest continuing land tenure systems in the world, and have one of the oldest continuing land use planning and management systems in the world.

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