Brendan Gleeson reflects critically on the 'new urbanism' and sketches a possible alternative based upon a renewed and transformed version of the traditional approach to Australian suburban development.

Drawing on evidence from four schools Claire Ridgewell, Neil Sipe and Nick Buchanan find that far fewer children are cycling or walking to school than in previous generations, and that more and more are being driven to school by car. Schools in different locations have different travel patterns, however, with two schools in suburban areas...

Eddo Coiacetto and Doug Baker examine the extent and nature of real estate development by local governments in Queensland, a state where private sector values are often assumed to prevail. At least a third of local governments in Queensland have developed land, often because of a perceived failure of the private sector to provide development...

Brendan Gleeson and Eddo Coiacetto review the historical and contemporary contexts for public land development in Australia, focusing on the rationale for this form of government intervention in urban and peri-urban land markets. They focus on the specific case of public land development agencies: state owned enterprises that participate directly in land markets, via the...

Nick Buchanan, Rick Evans and Jago Dodson undertake a preliminary investigation of public transport and the spatial distribution of vulnerable social groups on the Gold Coast, Queensland. In particular, they examine the combination of spatial and temporal access in public transportation.