One of the key emerging public concerns is the socio-economic risk to households arising from the combined impact of rising mortgage expenses, historically high petrol prices and inflationary pressures. To assess how the impact of these three factors is likely to be distributed across Australian cities we have created a new index, the ‘vulnerability assessment...

While governments are less willing to provide and regulate housing, in many cases they retain a dominant capacity to imagine and define not only housing reality, but also institute this reality through the institutional and governmental relationships of social housing. Jago Dodson assesses the changing comprehension of the state and state activity in housing policy...

Recent attempts to reconfigure urban transport planning in Auckland around conceptions of sustainability have simply reproduced the kind of auto-dominated transport plans that have been pursued since the 1950s, albeit with ‘greener’ rhetoric. Paul Mees and Jago Dodson look at why this has occurred.

Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe assess how different socio-economic groups will be affected by rising fuel costs at the neighbourhood level. The evidence suggests that high levels of oil vulnerability are present in Australian cities but that this vulnerability is unevenly distributed. New policies emphasising public transport services are needed to avoid, remedy or mitigate...

Low density suburban development and excessive use of automobiles are associated with serious urban and environmental problems. In this study Tan Yigitcanlar, Jago Dodson, Brendan Gleeson and Neil Sipe develop new approaches for assessing the containment of travel within planned development. Their key aim is to clarify and map the relationships between trip generation and...