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Associate Professor Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
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Politics & Society
Seeing the invisible vulnerable in our cities
The Global South’s urban poor are often violently displaced and excluded from the processes and places which determine their lives
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Environment
Doing more to stop sexual violence in plain sight
A lack of understanding of women’s fear in public spaces still puts the burden of personal safety on the victim, not the perpetrator
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Environment
Despairing about climate change?
Education is playing a key role in inspiring cities and communities to create better, more resilient places for our climate future
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Environment
Designing-in difference
Culturally inclusive urban design can help shape our everyday public spaces, encouraging a vibrant multicultural social fabric here in Melbourne