M1. COLOURING AUSTRALIA - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki
Lead academic institution (incl. department) or academic consortium
City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales
Lead institution link
(https://cityfutures.ada.unsw.edu.au/)
Lead institution's public research body verification link
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Associate academic institutions
Curtin University Swinburne University University of Adelaide University of Canberra University of Melbourne University of Queensland University of South Australia University of Tasmania
City/Cities selected for initial testing
Colouring Sydney
Colouring Melbourne
Colouring Canberra
Colouring Brisbane
Colouring Adelaide
Colouring Perth
Colouring Hobart
Platform links
- Live platform links:
Social media links
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Articles, publications and events links
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CCRP membership start date
2020
Actual and estimated launch dates
- Demonstration model testing: Colouring Sydney launched 2021
- Regional hubs: 2022 and 2023_Please add launch years/cities_
- National Rollout: Planned for 2023
Academic Team
(Significant contributions with to/from date where applicable)
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University of New South Wales: Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform (AHDAP) Principal Investigator: Professor Christopher Pettit Colouring Australia Lead: Dr. Matthew Ng Software engineering: Ali Shamakhy and Dr. Henry Petersen
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Curtin University - Dr. Parisa Izadpanahi
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Swinburne University - Dr. Stephen Glackin and George O'Hara
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University of Adelaide - Dr. Chris Leishman
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University of Canberra - Dr. Robert Tanton
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University of Melbourne - Dr. Loren Bruns
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University of Queensland - Dr. Jonathan Corcoran, Dr. Elin Charles Edwards and Dr. Tim Riddel
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University of South Australia - Dr. Chris Leishman
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University of Tasmania - Dr. Helen Norrie
Colouring Australia alumnae (Please include institution):
Multidisciplinary expertise
- Urban Analytics
- Spatial Data Science
- Planning and Development Policy
- Smart Cities
- Software Engineering
- Database Management
Key collaborators
- FrontierSI
- Australian Research Data Commons
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Australia Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- National Housing Finance Investment Corporation
- Omnilink
- Spatial Services New South Wales
Funding
Grant 1: Current
- Date: 2020 - 2023
- Amount: 100,000 AUD
- Funder: Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
- Purpose: Colouring Cities integration and testing within the Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform (AHDAP)
Examples of applications tested
Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform connects academics, government, industry and communities to the best available data, analytics and insights to assist in solving the challenges facing Australia’s housing future. The ARDC has provided 1.7 million AUD to support platform development.
By implementing a common, extensible data model to facilitate the consolidation of Australian housing data, the Australian Housing Data Analytics Platform (AHDAP) will facilitate research into areas such as housing supply, affordability and diversity, supporting policy decisions that are fair, data-driven, and accurate. AHDAP will provide researchers and planners with a transformative capability to objectively design and evaluate new policy and practice with regards to the future development of Australia’s urban conurbations, assisting in the driving of economic recovery, social inclusion and resilience across Australia’s $9.1 trillion housing market.
This project connects academia, government, industry and communities to the best available data, analytics and insights to assist in solving the challenges facing Australia’s housing future. It brings together key Federal agencies responsible for researching and monitoring national housing and planning policy, a collaboration that will deliver a sustainable national governance model for Australia’s digital housing assets and provide researchers and policymakers with a prioritised set of nationally harmonised housing data.
Colouring Australia is being developed under AHDAP as one of the primary toolkits to test citizen engagement and public participation, with easily interpretable visualisation, as well as access to linked and downloadable datasets.
Open building footprint source/s
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Primary research driver/s for reproduction of platform code
Colouring Australia is a web-based open data platform and database that contains building footprints and building information.
Colouring Australia aims to help facilitate the free exchange of data and knowledge on building stocks across cities and countries, to improve their quality, efficiency, sustainability and resilience. It has been set up as part of the Australian Housing Data Analytics platform.
What are the most useful aspects of the Colouring Cities Research Programme for you?
Current work includes development of new categories and urban metrics for the Colouring Australia and wider Colouring Cities Research Programme.
To-date
A new walkability index has been derived (see "Community" at sydney.colouringaustralia.org)
In Development
Lightweight Machine Learning models to derive building age
What are the greatest challenges you anticipate during platform set up and platform management e.g. open footprint access, engineering costs, short-term/long-term funding etc?
- High costs and restricted access to authoritative national building footprints
- Agency in each capital city to maintain their respective platforms
- Data ingestion and mass adoption
**Key contributions to CCRP development
Integration of Walkability index and testing of regional academic hubs (2022)
**Additional advisors and audience groups consulted **
to be completed
Planned actions and outputs 2023 - proposed and completed**
to be completed