Infrastructure is fundamental to the liveability and productivity of any city and, especially post-COVID cities would face the growing significance of suburban infrastructure due to a strengthened preference for low-density living. This research addresses land-based infrastructure funding mechanisms in place in Victoria, Australia and Seoul, South Korea.

This paper reports on research which follows the difficult process of farm families preparing for and subsequently leaving farming. The period of exit covers the millennium drought of 2000-2010 in four case study areas in Victoria, Australia. It is concerned with families still of working age, in order to trace their subsequent employment outcomes. Identifying...

This paper considers issues of sub-industry manufacturing, its changing geography and what this may mean for economic planning in Melbourne Victoria.

This paper explores a hypothesis for the location of firms in a particular industrial cluster and posits that the influence of local economic development strategies have their limitations.

This research suggests that in an age of ‘ubiquities’, only labour remains embedded locally and asks therefore if labour is the bedrock of industrial clusters? The paper revisits regulation theory – and a case study of an ‘unglamorous’ but resilient manufacturing sector in Melbourne’s north.