Brendan Gleeson, Toni Darbas, Laurel Johnson and Suzanne Lawson develop an operational framework for describing and analysing metropolitan plans. The framework aims to provide a basis for describing and analysing current metropolitan plans with reference to key Australian and overseas debates about urban strategic planning, and provide an operational structure for the formulation of a...

This paper presents the findings of a research study which investigated and evaluated the housing related regional assistance measures in the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States and draws implications for Australian policy makers.

This paper has two specific objectives (i) to ‘locate'disabled people in nineteenth-century Melbourne by showing where and how they lived; and (ii) to illustrate the socio-spatial relations that shaped their lives.

This paper considers the dangers for social science when the predictive urge extends to prophesy - using case studies of Los Angeles and New Zealand.