This paper examines the empirical shortfalls of the technical-rational decision-making process in transportation planning, highlighting the reliance on a select few experts, limited public participation in modelling processes, and decision-makers who have little understanding of the methodological limitations inherent in transport modelling advice.

This Research Monograph investigates the relationship between urban environments and health. The project examines the empirical evidence for relationships between urban environments and health outcomes, focusing on three specific aspects of the urban environment: urban form, transport systems and the location of health services. The main finding of the research is that the evidentiary base...

One of the key emerging public concerns is the socio-economic risk to households arising from the combined impact of rising mortgage expenses, historically high petrol prices and inflationary pressures. To assess how the impact of these three factors is likely to be distributed across Australian cities we have created a new index, the ‘vulnerability assessment...

While governments are less willing to provide and regulate housing, in many cases they retain a dominant capacity to imagine and define not only housing reality, but also institute this reality through the institutional and governmental relationships of social housing. Jago Dodson assesses the changing comprehension of the state and state activity in housing policy...

Recent attempts to reconfigure urban transport planning in Auckland around conceptions of sustainability have simply reproduced the kind of auto-dominated transport plans that have been pursued since the 1950s, albeit with ‘greener’ rhetoric. Paul Mees and Jago Dodson look at why this has occurred.