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Victoria needs a big-picture transport plan that isn't about winners v losers
Victoria's 30-year Infrastructure Strategy is not, and was never intended to be, an integrated land use and transport strategy. Instead it lists a pipeline of projects to meet Victoria’s short-, medium- and long-term infrastructure needs and priorities. It also calls for a congestion tax to ease the pressure on roads. It is still not clear...
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Transforming public housing in a federal context
The research finds that Austria demonstrates a model of a successful federally legislated housing system. It has a national level legislative framework outlining the business model for not-for-profit housing provision, establishing cost rent setting rules and delineating conditions for the use of direct and indirect subsidies. This ensures contestability and transparency in the allocation and...
Conference paper
Transformability of civic engagement in times of economic crisis
Considering the relationship between citizen participation and government intervention strategies in Australian cities in a post-GFC urban landscape, the paper examines how citizen participation is transformed and reconstituted through economic uncertain landscapes.
Conference paper
The cyborg city: re-thinking urban resilience through mobile communications
Using mobile communications as an example, the paper focuses on critically exploring the implications of our reliance on complex technological networks with reference to urban Australia.
Conference paper
How and why does community opposition to affordable housing development escalate? "Unsupported development" in Parramatta, NSW
Through a mixed-methods retrospective case study of an ‘extreme’ instance of community opposition to affordable housing development in the Western Sydney LGA of Parramatta, this paper looks at how and why community opposition to affordable housing escalated between 2009 and 2011, addressing this gap in knowledge.