Conference paper
Transport disadvantage in the Australian metropolis: Towards new concepts and methods
This paper examines the links between household social status and transport disadvantage through a review of concepts for the analysis of transport disadvantage in urban research and policy making.
Report
Towards a new Australian suburbanism
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.
Report
Public land agencies in Australia: the key to positive planning?
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...
Report
Landscapes apart: museums and Australian suburbia
Public museums are a critical element of the public sphere – the domain that links and affirms us all as citizens, irrespective of our individual traits, our birthplace, our place of residence, our religion, our economic status etc. But according to Brendan Gleeson, assessment, the public sphere in our suburban regions is not in good...
Discussion paper
The chrysalis breaks open: the emergence of a post neo-liberal mode of urban change
Brendan Gleeson outlines the major strategic challenges facing Queensland Transport deriving from contemporary patterns of urbanisation. He looks at the metropolitan context for strategic transport policy, principally the Southeast Queensland conurbation, exploring the physical, governance and socio-political issues to be confronted.