This paper discusses the impacts of physical neighbourhood environments on the social life — a component of social health — of older people. The research is focused on where, in the neighbourhood, the social life of older people takes place.

Development conflicts can emerge as a result of different meanings, values and attachments to places. This paper will review the on–going (2005–2013) development conflict on the Southport Spit, one of the last significant undeveloped public green spaces on the Gold Coast. Our aim is to examine how competing place values have been constructed over time...

In this paper we are interested in the extent to which these new developments represent either a continuation of or transition to segregated living for their inhabitants and explore what this means in the wider context of urban policy and planning.

City identity can be examined from a number of political, economic and cultural perspectives including the way it has been perceived by residents and outsiders. The paper approaches a perspective of place identity that takes into account modern practices of place marketing and branding rather than experiential self-identity.

With the aim of contributing to the literature on Australia’s settlement system by focusing on large scale urbanisation outside of the capital cities this paper provides an in-depth look at Australia’s sixth largest city, often taken too lightly. The purpose of the paper is two-fold: to question the accuracy of some widely held beliefs about...