%T Adapting aspirations and expectations on the coastal suburban and regional fringe %A Susie Moloney %A Yolande Strengers %A Cecily Maller %I Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research %D 2011 %K Climate change, %K Environmental impacts, %K Urban planning, %K Peri-urban development, %K Suburban growth %U https://apo.org.au/node/238666 %X The trend towards larger, detached, energy intensive dwellings in poorly serviced, low-density, urban fringe locations, leaves governments, households and communities vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The planning and design of new outer urban areas, and the retrofitting of existing ones, affects theĀ  extent to which communities can adapt to changing climactic conditions. Policy needs %9 Report