The Environmental City stream of the 2005 State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conference explored and discussed a range of topics – many of which of course overlapped and also related to the other streams at this conference. The main headings were: climate change; critiques of the idea of sustainability and its translation into policies...

This paper explores the history, archaeology and environment of Old Castlereagh and the Penrith Lakes Scheme on the banks of the Nepean River in Sydney's west.