This working paper describes the development of the 1988 metropolitan strategy for Sydney, its planning objectives and instruments. A comment on the paper focuses on the six major pressures on the formulation of the strategy and asks a series of critical questions of each.

Public ownership and development of land is a powerful means of controlling the development of an urban area, avoiding high speculative costs of land for housing and public purposes, and siphoning increases in land values that accompany urban growth into the public purse. This paper compares government control of public land in Stockholm and Canberra.

This paper looks at regulation as the primary instrument of planning in Australia. It examines some of the strengths and weaknesses of statutory processes and regulations, analyses their success in achieving urban policy objectives.

This paper discusses the sexual division of labour and responsibilities in Australian households during the 1980s.