Conference
Owning Institution
Hosted by the University of Western Sydney's Urban Frontiers Program the first State of Australian Cities conference brought together academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the current issues facing Australian cities. Papers from all subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.
Conference paper
The role of knowledge in large Australian city – regions: a traditional industry in Greater Western Sydney and the Hunter Region
This paper explores the effects of territorial systems on the knowledge and innovation processes of industries traditionally regarded as low-knowledge intensive, in this case the steel industry.
Conference paper
Paradise planned: socio-economic differentiation and the master planned community on Sydney’s urban fringe
Since the mid 1980s the character of residential development on Sydney’s urban fringe has become increasingly socially and economically differentiated from older more established outer ring suburbs.
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The governance role of councils in urban development: lessons from the USA
This paper provides a new frame of reference for addressing the governance role of councils in ensuring good urban development and illustrates this with examples drawn from a four week study tour of 18 new urbanist developments in the USA undertaken by the author in February and March 2003.
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The community is not a place and why it matters. Case study: Green Square
The conflation of community with place in planning is so ubiquitous, and so clearly well intentioned that it almost seems churlish to point out that if there is one thing that a community is not these days, it is a place.
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Before and after Sydney’s M4 Motorway: did it make the city more sustainable?
Induced traffic growth has significant implications for the sustainability of urban systems. These are discussed in tandem with a brief review of the debate that has taken place around induced traffic growth.