In this conference papwer, urban planning strategies that may help to counter inequality producing mechanisms are presented.

Australia has the highest rate of population growth of all the medium and large OECD countries. But urban planning for this growth is often inadequate.

Australian cities have a history of state-supported major sporting stadiums. This has intensified into the neo-liberal era dating from the 1980s with state funding of major stadium development, despite the greatly increased professionalization of the various sporting codes using the stadiums and the presumable scope for funding of stadium infrastructure by these codes. The last...

The paper examines a number of hypotheses as to why Melbourne grew more despite initial Sydney advantages.

The paper explains the psychosocial differences between teleworking environments and concludes with a call for deeper understanding and consideration of psychological frameworks.