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11 November 2025

Where are our by-laws? Resilience and lost opportunities in urban Fiji

by Sinclair Dinnen and Miranda Forsyth

Jakarta MRT TS12 entering Blok A Station (Irfan Muhammad-Wikimedia Commons)

1 December 2023

Lessons in urban development from Jakarta’s mass rapid transit project

by Grace Stanhope

Port Moresby (gailhampshire-Flickr)

25 September 2023

Keeping it together, together: 2023 Pacific Urban Forum

by Luke Kiddle

The library at Gando primary school (GandoIT-Wikimedia Commons)

12 October 2022

Global prize honours African architect

by David Guy

Protect coastlines (©Mercia Abbott)

27 June 2022

Nature-based urban design for wellbeing and adaptation in Oceania

by Tokintekai Bakineti, Paul Blaschke, Luke Kiddle, Anita Latai-Niusulu, Willy Missack and Maibritt Pedersen Zari

Joyce Bay settlement (Desmond Narongou)

14 October 2021

Transformation of a Port Moresby settlement

by Desmond Narongou

Hanuabada, PNG (Commonwealth Secretariat/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

4 October 2017

Development Bulletin No 78: Urban Development in the Pacific

by Pamela Thomas

Gerehu market, Port Moresby (UN Women Papua New Guinea/Kim Eaton/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

17 May 2017

As election looms, PNG political parties should consider supporting informal economy

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

22 February 2017

PNG conference on urban safety: abstracts invited

by Christina Cheong

Lord Howe settlement football field, Honiara (Flickr/DFAT/Irene Scott for AusAID CC BY 2.0)

17 January 2017

Priced out of the market: informal settlements in Honiara, Solomon Islands

by Meg Keen and Luke Kiddle

Christ the King Primary School (image: Michelle Rooney)

12 December 2016

PNG education policies in urban contexts: Christ the King Primary School, Port Moresby

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney

Honiara, Solomon Islands (Flickr/Jenny Scott CC BY-NC 2.0)

21 September 2016

Urban politics in Melanesia: shallow roots

by Julien Barbara and Meg Keen

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