Policy, Plan, Design and Engagement Guidelines Prepared for Industry and Government Agencies
Inclusiveness Guidelines
This research was commissioned by Brisbane City Council as one of the INAS Games Legacy Projects. Brisbane hosted the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS) in 2019. The aim of this research was to develop guidelines to inform the preparation, management of sports facilities and venues to become inclusive and welcoming for people with intellectual disabilities. The research has engaged experts and users in assessing selected Brisban City Council venues, guidelines have then be developed through a co-design process involving personnel from Brisbane City Concil.
Stakeholder Engagement Guidelines
Stakeholder Engagement in Kelvin Grove Urban Village
The Kelvin Grove Principle Body Corporate has commissioned this Report. The objective is to gather a better understanding of the permanent and transient population of KGUV as well as to understand which communication strategies could work better to engage and interact with KGUV city dwellers. There is an additional research component of the project that investigates the lived and perceived space of KGUV and builds on previous research by Guaralda, Yigitcanlar, Caldwell and Houghton about knowledge communities, creative suburbs, placemaking and community engagement.
Smart City Guidelines
Smart Cities of the Sunshine State: Status of Queensland’s Local Government Areas
This report investigates whether Queensland is a smart state by evaluating smart city performances of Queensland local government areas. The study method includes two stages. Firstly, a Smart City Index is proposed based on a systematic literature review; and secondly, 78 Queensland local government areas are critically assessed and ranked against the Smart City Index. The Smart City Index contains 16 indicators covering the following areas: (a) Productivity & innovation; (b) Liveability & wellbeing; (c) Sustainability & accessibility; (d) Governance & planning. The findings reveal a mixed performance across Queensland, with high smart city performance dominancy in the Brisbane metropolitan area, and some regional urban centres. This finding highlights the presence of regional disparity problems in Queensland, which need to be addressed in order for Queensland to become truly a smart state.
Smart Cities of Down Under: Performance of Australian Local Government Areas
This report presents the findings of a study conducted at the Urban Studies Lab of Queensland University of Technology (QUT)—with support from the Australian Government’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (DITRDC)—that placed Australian local government areas under the smart city microscope to evaluate their performances. The study selected the local government areas that are in the greater capital city statistical areas along with the larger local government areas (with population over 50,000) located beyond the greater capital city statistical areas. These 180 local government areas—that house over 85% of the Australian population—are evaluated against the ‘Smart City Assessment Model’ criteria—that measure the smart city outcomes, and provide a snapshot of the smart city performance of the local government areas.
Smart Cities of Brazil: Performance of Brazilian Capital Cities
This report is an outcome of the City 4.0 Lab’s collaboration with Brazilian Universities under the Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Network. The report focuses on understanding the smartness levels of the Brazilian capital cities through the lens of a smart city performance assessment framework. This report focuses on Brazilian cities to develop an evaluation model for smart cities and bring metrics that contribute to public managers seeking balance and smartness in the life of their cities. The report informs public managers, through the indicators of productivity and innovation, liveability and well-being, sustainability and accessibility, governance and planning, and connectivity and innovation, on the smartness performance and levels of their cities.