NSW · The urban growth frontier
Future of Cities & Regions
Understanding and improving the long-term conditions that shape life across cities and regions.
What this practice advises on
Advice that starts with the place.
Where can change make the greatest difference to how people live? Future of Cities & Regions asks it of the decades ahead. Everyday Places asks it of this week on the main street.
Future of Cities & Regions works on the long-term conditions that shape life across cities and regions. Everyday Places works on the environments, services and local economies people rely on every day. The decisions differ in horizon, not in what they are for.
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The governments and institutions responsible for where housing is built, which industries are backed through transition and when infrastructure arrives; and the councils and place managers responsible for how centres, streets and neighbourhoods work week to week.
Spendmapp and CityCompass sit beneath the analysis in both practices: observed behaviour rather than assumed demand, and evidence that keeps running after a commission ends.
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Everyday Places
Improving the environments, services and local economies people rely on every day.
What this practice advises on
Shashi Karunanethy · Chief Economist
PhD Economics
Shashi leads the consulting practice and has worked with Geografia since 2014, first as an associate director and, since 2023, as Chief Economist. A PhD economist trained at the University of Melbourne, Shashi has also lectured on spatial economics and economic history.