This paper summarises the literature on planning approaches to protected areas generally, concentrating upon the interface between urban areas and projected areas while looking to apply this literature to natural world heritage areas.

Urban rehabilitation, regeneration and renewal have intermittently been identified within federal (as well as state) policy circles as central to the functioning of Australian cities since at least the 1940s. This paper adds to existing knowledge by exploring the role of the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development (DURD) in the 1970s in facilitating...

Research relating to Australia’s urban planning and policy agenda is dominated by what happens in Australia’s five metropolitan cities. However the growth of Australia’s medium cities and the sources of this population growth, suggests an increasing importance for many medium-sized cities.

Whilst some disciplines analyse paintings and photographs and how they represent different landscapes, very little has been written on how planners have used or could use a range of creative media to represent sense of place.

This report investigated development and enhancement of regional centres, focusing on the development of regional centres as places of economic, environmental, social and cultural innovation that enable regional Victoria to meet the challenge of predicted future population growth in Victoria.