This paper draws insights from Melbourne’s long-term metropolitan planning strategy to explore these equity-efficiency tensions, to describe the normative agendas aligned with strong and participative community, and advance insights into wider implications for the collective and personal resilience of the communities caught between decision makers and planners in high-order agendas.

This paper reflects an interest in how policy and law are used to develop models for more just and equitable city planning.

Drawing on socio-legal scholarship and urban studies to consider knowledge formats for planning law decision makers, this paper reflects on how policy and law are used to develop models for more just and equitable city living.