The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) is a $20 million initiative funded by the Australian Government’s Super Science scheme. AURIN will provide built environment and urban researchers, designers and planners with infrastructure to facilitate access to a distributed network of aggregated datasets and information services.

These datasets and services are essential to understanding patterns of urban development, and to form and model urban growth for a sustainable future.

AURIN will also provide the mechanisms, protocols and tools by which data can be accessed, interrogated, modelled and/or simulated. This will assist improved design and management of our cities, by linking the physical and social aspects of the built environment.