Catherine Higgs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105158 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Catherine Higgs |
| PRENOMES | Catherine |
| SOBRENOME | Higgs |
| ASSINATURA | HIGGS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5903-9095 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Is Victoria’s Planning System Designed to Deliver Health Supportive and Liveable Cities
Creating liveable cities is a global priority reflected in the planning policies of Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, in the state of Victoria. Yet, a gap persists between policy and on-the-ground outcomes. This study explored whether Victoria’s planning system supports these ambitions, using mixed methods to assess how regulations shape neighbourhood liveability. Features contributing to liveability were mapped across four Greenfield c…
Internationally Validated Open Access Indicators of Large Public Urban Green Space for Healthy and Sustainable Cities
Large public urban green spaces (LPUGS) provide multiple health and environmental co‐benefits by mitigating urban heat, improving air quality and biodiversity, and promoting physical activity, social interactions, and mental wellbeing. There is a lack of accessible, evidence‐informed, and internationally validated LPUGS indicators to assist with benchmarking and monitoring progress toward healthy and sustainable cities globally. This study develo…
Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators
Measuring and monitoring progress towards achieving healthy, equitable and sustainable cities is a priority for planners, policymakers and researchers in diverse contexts globally. Yet data collection, analysis, visualisation and reporting on policy and spatial indicators involve specialised knowledge, skills, and collaboration across disciplines. Integrated open-source tools for calculating and communicating urban indicators for diverse urban co…
Longitudinal effects of the built environment on transportation and recreational walking and differences by age and sex
Infrastructure and accessibility implications of implementing x-minute city policies in low-density contexts
Addressing priorities such as health, liveability, and climate resilience, many global governments are exploring x-minute city and x-minute neighbourhood policies. Addressing a lack of operational models for x-minute cities, we developed a model to assess accessibility and utilisation implications of their implementation, testing the model by applying it to the low-density city of Melbourne, Australia, where 20-minute neighbourhood (20MN) policy …
Achieving ‘Active’ 30 Minute Cities
Confronted with rapid urbanization, population growth, traffic congestion, and climate change, there is growing interest in creating cities that support active transport modes including walking, cycling, or public transport. The ‘30 minute city’, where employment is accessible within 30 min by active transport, is being pursued in some cities to reduce congestion and foster local living. This paper examines the spatial relationship between employ…
Policy-Relevant Spatial Indicators of Urban Liveability And Sustainability
Urban liveability is a global priority for creating healthy, sustainable cities. Measurement of policy-relevant spatial indicators of the built and natural environment supports city planning at all levels of government. Analysis of their spatial distribution within cities, and impacts on individuals and communities, is crucial to ensure planning decisions are effective and equitable. This paper outlines challenges and lessons from a 5-year collab…
A Generalized Framework for Measuring Pedestrian Accessibility around the World Using Open Data
Pedestrian accessibility is an important factor in urban transport and land use policy and critical for creating healthy, sustainable cities. Developing and evaluating indicators measuring inequalities in pedestrian accessibility can help planners and policymakers benchmark and monitor the progress of city planning interventions. However, measuring and assessing indicators of urban design and transport features at high resolution worldwide to ena…
Data to Decisions
Healthy development in the early years lays the foundations for children's ongoing physical, emotional, and social development. Children develop in multiple contexts, including their local neighbourhood. Neighbourhood-built environment characteristics, such as housing, walkability, traffic exposure, availability of services, facilities, and parks, are associated with a range of health and wellbeing outcomes across the life course, but evidence wi…
A repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal study of mental health and wellbeing during Covid-19 lockdowns in Victoria, Australia
This study supports the findings of other international studies. It also highlights the need to promote increased social connection and maintain it at times of isolation and separation, particularly amongst younger adults
Neighbourhood walkability and dietary attributes
Objective: Higher neighbourhood walkability would be expected to contribute to better health, but the relevant evidence is inconsistent. This may be because residents’ dietary attributes, which vary with socio-economic status (SES) and influence their health, can be related to walkability. We examined associations of walkability with dietary attributes and potential effect modification by area-level SES. Design: The exposure variable of this cros…
Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities
Spatial and area-level socioeconomic variation in urban liveability (access to social infrastructure, public transport, open space, healthy food choices, local employment, street connectivity, dwelling density, and housing affordability) was examined and mapped across 39,967 residential statistical areas in Australia's metropolitan (n = 7) and largest regional cities (n = 14). Urban liveability varied spatially, with inner-city areas more liveabl…
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities
Urban greening is a popular nature-led regeneration policy based on the assumption that provision of greenspace improves the health and wellbeing of proximate communities. Entangled within these objectives are environmental justice principles that seek to remedy historical and contemporary concerns related to contaminated areas of post-industrial cities. This paper draws upon findings from an evaluation study of an urban greening project in a soc…
Building Capacity in Monitoring Urban Liveability in Bangkok
Cities are widely recognised as important settings for promoting health. Nonetheless, making cities more liveable and supportive of health and wellbeing remains a challenge. Decision-makers' capacity to use urban health evidence to create more liveable cities is fundamental to achieving these goals. This paper describes an international partnership designed to build capacity in using liveability indicators aligned with the UN Sustainable Developm…
In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa
Liveability aspirations and realities
The Urban Liveability Index
BACKGROUND: Designing healthy, liveable cities is a global priority. Current liveability indices are aggregated at the city-level, do not reflect spatial variation within cities, and are often not aligned to policy or health. OBJECTIVES: To combine policy-relevant liveability indicators associated with health into a spatial Urban Liveability Index (ULI) and examine its association with adult travel behaviours. METHODS: We developed methods to cal…
What is the meaning of urban liveability for a city in a low-to-middle-income country? Contextualising liveability for Bangkok, Thailand
BACKGROUND: Creating 'liveable' cities has become a priority for various sectors, including those tasked with improving population health and reducing inequities. Two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, with the most rapid urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, there is limited guidance about what constitutes a liveable city from a LMIC perspective, with most of the evidence relating to high-in…
Using spatial measures to test a conceptual model of social infrastructure that supports health and wellbeing
Social infrastructure requires a consistent and measurable definition and more evidence is needed to demonstrate why it is important to health, wellbeing and the liveability of a community. In this paper, social infrastructure is defined as life-long social service needs related to health, education, early childhood, community support, community development, culture, sport and recreation, parks and emergency services. These services are needed to…
Examining associations between area-level spatial measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing behaviours and outcomes in an urban context
Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle
Journal Article Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa. Get access Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. xvi, 180. $85.00. Catherine Higgs Catherine Higgs University of Tennessee, Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…
Happiness and Work
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the allegation that slaves were harvesting cocoa off the west coast of Africa on the Portuguese island colony of São Tomé and Príncipe became an international scandal, not only because slavery had long been outlawed, but also because one of the major purchasers of that cocoa was the Quaker chocolate company, Cadbury Brothers. The Portuguese denied the charge of slavery and claimed that African workers…
The Law and the Prophets
Silence, Disobedience, and African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa
This article considers the choices made during the apartheid era by Catholic sisters who were members of one of the largest orders for African women, the Montebello Dominicans, based in KwaZulu-Natal, and one of the smallest orders, the Companions of Saint Angela, based in Soweto, the sprawling African township to the southwest of Johannesburg. The Montebellos took an apolitical stance and embraced "silence," but they could not avoid the politica…
Apartheid's Festival
Zenzele
The Zenzele clubs of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, which date from the late 1920s, were founded by mission-educated African women who sought to improve the lives of rural African women by enhancing their subsistence farming and cooking skills and educating them about household cleanliness, basic child care, and health care. Unlike associations for African women in British colonial Africa, Zenzele clubs did not evolve into political organizati…
Examining associations between area-level spatial measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing behaviours and outcomes in an urban context
Liveability aspirations and realities
Stepping Forward
A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings. This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women's goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformat…
The Ghost of Equality
Happiness and Work
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the allegation that slaves were harvesting cocoa off the west coast of Africa on the Portuguese island colony of São Tomé and Príncipe became an international scandal, not only because slavery had long been outlawed, but also because one of the major purchasers of that cocoa was the Quaker chocolate company, Cadbury Brothers. The Portuguese denied the charge of slavery and claimed that African workers…
Silence, Disobedience, and African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa
This article considers the choices made during the apartheid era by Catholic sisters who were members of one of the largest orders for African women, the Montebello Dominicans, based in KwaZulu-Natal, and one of the smallest orders, the Companions of Saint Angela, based in Soweto, the sprawling African township to the southwest of Johannesburg. The Montebellos took an apolitical stance and embraced "silence," but they could not avoid the politica…
Urban greening for health and wellbeing in low-income communities
Urban greening is a popular nature-led regeneration policy based on the assumption that provision of greenspace improves the health and wellbeing of proximate communities. Entangled within these objectives are environmental justice principles that seek to remedy historical and contemporary concerns related to contaminated areas of post-industrial cities. This paper draws upon findings from an evaluation study of an urban greening project in a soc…
The Ghost of Equality
Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities
Spatial and area-level socioeconomic variation in urban liveability (access to social infrastructure, public transport, open space, healthy food choices, local employment, street connectivity, dwelling density, and housing affordability) was examined and mapped across 39,967 residential statistical areas in Australia's metropolitan (n = 7) and largest regional cities (n = 14). Urban liveability varied spatially, with inner-city areas more liveabl…
Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan
Power and Resistance in an African Society
Against the Tide
The Ghost of Equality
The Ghost of Equality
Full Circle
(1998). Full Circle: Sol Plaatje, Anton Lembede, Mamphela Ramphele, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 380-389
South Africa Rediscovers Its past
South Africa's Alternative Press
Introduction: South Africa's alternative press in perspective Les Switzer Part I. An Independent Protest Press, 1880s-1930s: 1. The beginnings of African protest journalism at the cape Les Switzer 2. Qude maniki! John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal R. Hunt Davis Jr 3. From advocacy to mobilisation: Indian opinion, 1903-1914 Uma Shaskikant Mesthrie 4. Voice of the coloured elite: APO, 1919-1923 Mohamed Adhikari 5. Moderate and milita…
The Ghost of Equality
Catherine Higgs, The Ghost of Equality: the public lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959.Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1997, 276 pp., ISBN 0 8214 1169 1 hard covers, ISBN 0 8214 1171 3. - Volume 70 Issue 1
South Africa
Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan
Alfred B. Xuma
Faku
The Drama of South Africa
Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914
Stepping Forward
A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings. This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women's goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformat…
Apartheid's Festival
Drugs, Sex, and Hiv/Aids in Contemporary South Africa
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Zenzele
The Zenzele clubs of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, which date from the late 1920s, were founded by mission-educated African women who sought to improve the lives of rural African women by enhancing their subsistence farming and cooking skills and educating them about household cleanliness, basic child care, and health care. Unlike associations for African women in British colonial Africa, Zenzele clubs did not evolve into political organizati…
Silence, Disobedience, and African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa
This article considers the choices made during the apartheid era by Catholic sisters who were members of one of the largest orders for African women, the Montebello Dominicans, based in KwaZulu-Natal, and one of the smallest orders, the Companions of Saint Angela, based in Soweto, the sprawling African township to the southwest of Johannesburg. The Montebellos took an apolitical stance and embraced "silence," but they could not avoid the politica…
The Law and the Prophets
Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle
Journal Article Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa. Get access Dawne Y. Curry. Apartheid on a Black Isle: Removal and Resistance in Alexandra, South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. xvi, 180. $85.00. Catherine Higgs Catherine Higgs University of Tennessee, Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…
Happiness and Work
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the allegation that slaves were harvesting cocoa off the west coast of Africa on the Portuguese island colony of São Tomé and Príncipe became an international scandal, not only because slavery had long been outlawed, but also because one of the major purchasers of that cocoa was the Quaker chocolate company, Cadbury Brothers. The Portuguese denied the charge of slavery and claimed that African workers…
Examining associations between area-level spatial measures of housing with selected health and wellbeing behaviours and outcomes in an urban context
Using spatial measures to test a conceptual model of social infrastructure that supports health and wellbeing
Social infrastructure requires a consistent and measurable definition and more evidence is needed to demonstrate why it is important to health, wellbeing and the liveability of a community. In this paper, social infrastructure is defined as life-long social service needs related to health, education, early childhood, community support, community development, culture, sport and recreation, parks and emergency services. These services are needed to…
The Urban Liveability Index
BACKGROUND: Designing healthy, liveable cities is a global priority. Current liveability indices are aggregated at the city-level, do not reflect spatial variation within cities, and are often not aligned to policy or health. OBJECTIVES: To combine policy-relevant liveability indicators associated with health into a spatial Urban Liveability Index (ULI) and examine its association with adult travel behaviours. METHODS: We developed methods to cal…
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