Australia is regularly cited as one of the most highly urbanised countries in the world. However, a significant proportion of people living in Australia’s three largest cities live at relatively low ‘suburban’ densities. . This raises the question as to how the densification of Australian cities has been achieved, and whether there are alternative models...

This paper goes beneath the quantitative analysis of regulatory difference to understand qualitatively how different planning settings might affect residential development decisions and patterns of new housing supply in four metropolitan regions.

This paper explores the redevelopment potential of ageing and underutilised public housing properties in the middle suburbs of major Australian cities. State governments lack strategies for the renewal of this housing in the current fiscally constrained environment. Responding to this need, this paper presents a design research project that proposes a coordinated, precinct-based regeneration strategy...

Accommodating increased densities in urban areas is a fraught issue that often sees planners, developers and local communities in conflict. This paper explores a model for compact urban living that helps to address a range of these challenges.

This paper proposes a methodology to study the relationship between uses and the built environment of laneways through six features: laneway width, length, physical permeability, visibility from streets, the density of residences and their interfaces with laneways.