Goal 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

This project investigates how major cities function and the effects of their land-use, housing and infrastructure systems on the humans that live in them.

The aims of this research partnership between Melbourne Water and RMIT University is to help prevent aquatic pollution.

Based on technical site visits and self-identified community needs, RMIT University engineers from different disciplines are designing solutions to mitigate water, sanitation, drainage, waste, and flood risks in five highly vulnerable settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

Creating Liveable Cities in Australia is the first “baseline” measure of liveability in Australia’s state and territory capitals.

The need for freshwater is considered a critical global problem, consequently the demand for alternative sustainable water sources including ground water, desalinated water, and recycled water has increased over recent years and, as a result, the implementation of desalination plants is growing on a large scale.

The Supercity Nansha project aims to explore and highlight the important role architecture can play in the context of sustainability and liveable spaces.

The RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia was recently awarded a project by the Asia-Pacific Network (APN) for Global Change Research, under its under its Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP).

This project investigates and proposes a practical solution for the utilisations of the world's excess biosolids in fired-clay bricks.

The City Partnerships Challenge is a United Nations Global Compact contribution to the Multi-Partner Implementation Facility for Sustainable Urban Development (IFSUD) to catalyse effective, coordinated and results based implementation of integrated sustainable urban development solutions.

This project involves participatory action research and close collaboration with five informal settlements to identify climate vulnerabilities, their priority needs, and then to co-design potential climate actions with local stakeholders (including the identification of local implementation partners).

The Willum Warrain Aboriginal Gathering Place offers a space, in Hastings, south-east of Melbourne, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can come together to explore their goals, ideas and identity.

The Sustainable Urban Precincts Program (SUPP) was a $128 million project to reduce energy and water use, significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions associated with RMIT campus operations.

Pops4public is a social enterprise project aiming to improve the access and inclusiveness of Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS).

The Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme (SBC) aims at improving the knowledge of sustainable construction, and to support and mainstream sustainable building solutions.

RMIT urban health scholars are partnering with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration to develop and test a suite of open source 'urban liveability' indicators aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Climate change has been widely recognized as a main impediment for progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

The purpose of this research project is to provide a critical policy analysis of the Victorian Public Housing Renewal Program (PHRP).

RMIT University is generating comprehensive community profiles though site visits, household and settlement surveys; complemented by different geospatial datasets e.g. LiDAR and drone imagery.

This research project examines the inter-relationships between land tenure and climate vulnerability.