Tony Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0838-5462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fauna-sensitive road design in practice: Lessons from Australia
Fauna-sensitive road design (FSRD) seeks to reduce the ecological impacts of transport infrastructure, yet its application in Australia remains inconsistent and context-dependent. This study examines how FSRD is shaped by policy and institutional settings in Queensland and Victoria, combining Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) analysis of key guidance documents with interviews from 22 practitioners. Results revealed a strong reliance on non-binding…
Assessing the assessors: A systematic review of neighbourhood sustainability assessment tool effectiveness
Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) have been essential instruments for evaluating and guiding sustainable urban development. Despite insights provided into various aspects of sustainability assessment in the literature, limited research focuses on how effectively NSATs measure sustainability or what should be benchmarked in their assessment criteria. This study addresses this gap by identifying key factors that contribute to NS…
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change , by Joan Fitzgerald
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran, New York, R…
Since the early 2000s, literature from the built environment disciplines is replete with books offering road maps for cities to survive or thrive in a world of climate change. Urbanism for a Difficult Future joins this ever-expanding sub-genre. Many of these books have an important place in the literary canon. They are especially useful for translating complex ideas around cities and adaptation into actionable strategies for general audiences. Th…
Public art for placemaking and urban renewal: Insights from three regional Australian cities
Planning Australia’s healthy built environments , by Jennifer L. Kent and Susan Thompson: New York, Routledge, 2019
The nexus between public health and urban planning in Anglophone countries traces its roots back to the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. The sharp turn toward industrialization in the 1800s
Enclave urbanism in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Examining the socio-spatial consequences
Planning for Older People in a Rapidly Warming and Ageing World: The Role of Urban Greening
Rapidly ageing populations are coinciding with urbanisation and climate change providing a global challenge. Older people experience higher rates of mortality and morbidity from extreme heat. Climate change is expected to magnify urban heat island effects. Green infrastructure is increasingly recognised as capable of mitigating urban heat and could alleviate some heat burdens on seniors. This research investigated the enablers and barriers to gre…
Assembling Accra through new city imaginary: Land ownership, agency, and relational complexity
Land ownership is given little attention in scholarly accounts of how and why new city visions are mobilised and implemented in Africa. In this paper we examine the evolution of Accra City Extension Project (ACEP) — an urban strategy to modernise and respond to urbanisation pressures in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. We trace the origins and rationale of the ACEP, the actors involved, resources, institutional capacities and their relations. Dra…
How environmental storylines shaped regional planning policies in South East Queensland, Australia: A long-term analysis
Characterising spatial and temporal patterns of urban evolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Accra, Ghana
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
Do ‘city shapers’ really support urban consolidation? The case of Brisbane, Australia
Cities all over the world have activated policy support for urban consolidation in recent decades. Rationales for urban consolidation focus on its perceived ability to achieve sustainability goals, including decreased automobile dependence, increased social cohesion and greater walkability. Despite this, there are few international examples of urban consolidation policy implementation that has achieved its stated aims. This paper explores the nat…
Managing ensemble scale heritage conservation in the Shandon Architectural Conservation Area in Cork, Ireland
Shaping urban consolidation debates: Social representations in Brisbane newspaper media
Recent international trends towards urban consolidation, intended to reduce outward urban sprawl by concentrating growth within existing neighbourhoods, can cause contention in cities. Understanding how the mass media represents urban consolidation can lead to more informed and democratic planning practices. This paper employs Social Representations Theory to identify and understand representations of urban consolidation in newspaper media. The t…
Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity: The role of residents’ dispositions and household practices
Over the past decade research on urban thermal inequity has grown, with a focus on denser built\nenvironments. In this letter we examine thermal inequity associated with climate change impacts and\nchanges to urban form in a comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged Australian suburb. Local\nurban densification policies designed to counteract sprawl have reduced block sizes, increased height\nlimits, and diminished urban tree canopy cover (U…
Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation: Barriers to adoption and drivers for uptake by spatial planners
Characterising spatial and temporal patterns of urban evolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Accra, Ghana
Assembling Accra through new city imaginary: Land ownership, agency, and relational complexity
Land ownership is given little attention in scholarly accounts of how and why new city visions are mobilised and implemented in Africa. In this paper we examine the evolution of Accra City Extension Project (ACEP) — an urban strategy to modernise and respond to urbanisation pressures in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. We trace the origins and rationale of the ACEP, the actors involved, resources, institutional capacities and their relations. Dra…
Do ‘city shapers’ really support urban consolidation? The case of Brisbane, Australia
Cities all over the world have activated policy support for urban consolidation in recent decades. Rationales for urban consolidation focus on its perceived ability to achieve sustainability goals, including decreased automobile dependence, increased social cohesion and greater walkability. Despite this, there are few international examples of urban consolidation policy implementation that has achieved its stated aims. This paper explores the nat…
Shaping urban consolidation debates: Social representations in Brisbane newspaper media
Recent international trends towards urban consolidation, intended to reduce outward urban sprawl by concentrating growth within existing neighbourhoods, can cause contention in cities. Understanding how the mass media represents urban consolidation can lead to more informed and democratic planning practices. This paper employs Social Representations Theory to identify and understand representations of urban consolidation in newspaper media. The t…
Enclave urbanism in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Examining the socio-spatial consequences
Public art for placemaking and urban renewal: Insights from three regional Australian cities
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
Managing ensemble scale heritage conservation in the Shandon Architectural Conservation Area in Cork, Ireland
Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation: Barriers to adoption and drivers for uptake by spatial planners
Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity: The role of residents’ dispositions and household practices
Over the past decade research on urban thermal inequity has grown, with a focus on denser built\nenvironments. In this letter we examine thermal inequity associated with climate change impacts and\nchanges to urban form in a comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged Australian suburb. Local\nurban densification policies designed to counteract sprawl have reduced block sizes, increased height\nlimits, and diminished urban tree canopy cover (U…
Managing ensemble scale heritage conservation in the Shandon Architectural Conservation Area in Cork, Ireland
Shaping urban consolidation debates: Social representations in Brisbane newspaper media
Recent international trends towards urban consolidation, intended to reduce outward urban sprawl by concentrating growth within existing neighbourhoods, can cause contention in cities. Understanding how the mass media represents urban consolidation can lead to more informed and democratic planning practices. This paper employs Social Representations Theory to identify and understand representations of urban consolidation in newspaper media. The t…
Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage
Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environ…
Do ‘city shapers’ really support urban consolidation? The case of Brisbane, Australia
Cities all over the world have activated policy support for urban consolidation in recent decades. Rationales for urban consolidation focus on its perceived ability to achieve sustainability goals, including decreased automobile dependence, increased social cohesion and greater walkability. Despite this, there are few international examples of urban consolidation policy implementation that has achieved its stated aims. This paper explores the nat…
How environmental storylines shaped regional planning policies in South East Queensland, Australia: A long-term analysis
Characterising spatial and temporal patterns of urban evolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Accra, Ghana
Planning for Older People in a Rapidly Warming and Ageing World: The Role of Urban Greening
Rapidly ageing populations are coinciding with urbanisation and climate change providing a global challenge. Older people experience higher rates of mortality and morbidity from extreme heat. Climate change is expected to magnify urban heat island effects. Green infrastructure is increasingly recognised as capable of mitigating urban heat and could alleviate some heat burdens on seniors. This research investigated the enablers and barriers to gre…
Assembling Accra through new city imaginary: Land ownership, agency, and relational complexity
Land ownership is given little attention in scholarly accounts of how and why new city visions are mobilised and implemented in Africa. In this paper we examine the evolution of Accra City Extension Project (ACEP) — an urban strategy to modernise and respond to urbanisation pressures in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. We trace the origins and rationale of the ACEP, the actors involved, resources, institutional capacities and their relations. Dra…
Planning Australia’s healthy built environments , by Jennifer L. Kent and Susan Thompson: New York, Routledge, 2019
The nexus between public health and urban planning in Anglophone countries traces its roots back to the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. The sharp turn toward industrialization in the 1800s
Enclave urbanism in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Examining the socio-spatial consequences
Public art for placemaking and urban renewal: Insights from three regional Australian cities
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change , by Joan Fitzgerald
Greenovation: Urban leadership on climate change, by Joan Fitzgerald." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran Urbanism for a difficult future: Practical responses to the climate crisis , by Korkut Onaran, New York, R…
Since the early 2000s, literature from the built environment disciplines is replete with books offering road maps for cities to survive or thrive in a world of climate change. Urbanism for a Difficult Future joins this ever-expanding sub-genre. Many of these books have an important place in the literary canon. They are especially useful for translating complex ideas around cities and adaptation into actionable strategies for general audiences. Th…
Fauna-sensitive road design in practice: Lessons from Australia
Fauna-sensitive road design (FSRD) seeks to reduce the ecological impacts of transport infrastructure, yet its application in Australia remains inconsistent and context-dependent. This study examines how FSRD is shaped by policy and institutional settings in Queensland and Victoria, combining Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) analysis of key guidance documents with interviews from 22 practitioners. Results revealed a strong reliance on non-binding…
Assessing the assessors: A systematic review of neighbourhood sustainability assessment tool effectiveness
Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) have been essential instruments for evaluating and guiding sustainable urban development. Despite insights provided into various aspects of sustainability assessment in the literature, limited research focuses on how effectively NSATs measure sustainability or what should be benchmarked in their assessment criteria. This study addresses this gap by identifying key factors that contribute to NS…
Political science (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Urban planning (6 works) · Civil engineering (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Engineering (5 works)