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We understand how people live, work, move, spend, connect and access opportunity. In Melbourne, George Town, London, Vancouver, Newcastle, Los Angeles, Quito, Gippsland and Broome.

What we believe

Cities and regions can work better for people.

Geografia combines human insight, rigorous evidence and technology to understand what shapes quality of life, and where change can make the greatest difference.

What we observe

six verbs connect the evidence to daily life

Where people can afford to live, and what a changing population needs.

A question we answer

Can essential services keep pace with growth?

Future of Cities & Regions

What we do

two practices, two evidence platforms

Geografia helps make cities, regions and everyday places more liveable by revealing how people actually live, work, move, spend and access opportunity.

The evidence platforms

Evidence that keeps watching.

Spendmapp and CityCompass help us understand how communities, economies and human behaviour are changing. They strengthen our consulting work and give clients continued access to evidence beyond an individual project.

Selected work

Surf Coast Shire CouncilWhat would give people more reasons to stay on Winchelsea's main street?Brighton CouncilHow should a fast-growing municipality organise its centres?Victoria Planning AuthorityWhat kind of employment can a new precinct realistically hold?Shire of DandaraganWhat will a wave of major projects ask of a small shire?Nillumbik Shire CouncilWho is actually running a business from home, and what do they need?Greater Sydney CommissionCan one framework track whether a city is becoming more liveable?NSW Department of Planning, Housing and InfrastructureWhere will a state’s population actually be in twenty years?Orion Group New ZealandHow much electricity infrastructure will a region need in twenty years?TelstraWhat happens to a city’s economy when people stop commuting into it?UN-HabitatCan everyday movement show how good life in a city actually is?MYOBWhat makes a small business resilient, and what makes it fragile?Deputy TechnologiesWho is working while the city sleeps?Star of the South Windfarm ProjectWhat would an offshore windfarm actually mean for local jobs?Western Australia's Office of Multicultural InterestsWhat does a multicultural community actually look like, suburb by suburb?Torres Strait Regional AuthorityHow does the Torres Strait actually compare, and what is the gap made of?City of AdelaideWhat are Adelaide's Park Lands actually worth to the city around them?Department of Local Government and CommunitiesWhere should the lines between councils fall?
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