Professor Brendan Gleeson

Professor Brendan Gleeson

Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Building, University of Melbourne

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Environment

Post-capitalism: Life within environmental limits

Capitalism’s limitless growth on a finite planet means the economic system we take for granted could end soon. If so, transformative and sustainable change must come from grassroots action

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Special Report

Challenging the vertical sprawl

The towers crowding out the centre of Australian cities are a symptom of failed governance and planning, and it’s threatening any transition to ecocities

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Special Report

Q&A: Aspiring to an ecocity future

Urban design, planning, building and maintenance must respond creatively, appropriately and effectively to the relationship between the social and the natural at both the local and global level. But how do the needs of countries differ?