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Out of bounds: Insights from children to support a cultural shift towards sustainable and child-friendly cities
This paper explores the links between child-friendly cities and sustainable cities including sustainable transport systems.
Conference paper
Is there a spatial mismatch between housing affordability and employment opportunity in Melbourne?
The research reported in this paper is situated at within a set of contemporary literatures concerning the spatial development of large urban areas, within the context of the ongoing restructuring of urban employment and housing markets.
Conference paper
Risk and security in Australian cities: Whose risk, whose responsibility?
This paper examines the evolution of risk and its governance in Australian cities - with the focus on Sydney. It considers the construction of risk and security and the roles played by different groups in defining these concepts, in constraining the choice of mitigation strategies and allocating responsibility and power.
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Urban agglomeration of advanced business services in Australia: some policy implications
While globalisation and production chain unbundling is allowing Advanced Business Services to reach out to clients in distant regions and countries, the tendency towards consolidation of these firms into Australia’s biggest cities, in particular Sydney and Melbourne, is of policy concern.
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Urban environmental planning and growth forecasting using GIS
This paper investigates approaches for predicting patterns of urban growth using tools developed in a geographical information system (GIS) for various planning scenarios.