Open spaces
Report
Towards a regional landscape framework: is practice ahead of theory?
The special qualities of regional landscapes of many favoured destinations are increasingly at risk as these regions experience significant in-migration leading to rapid and unplanned population growth. These challenges are particularly acute for metropolitan regions experiencing rapid peri-urban and urban growth. It has been the nature and the rapidity of this population growth that has...
Conference paper
How green was my city region: The relevance of past open space planning experiences to contemporary planning for the Brisbane metropolitan region
This paper has reviewed the principal attempts to address regional landscape and open space initiatives for the City of Brisbane and region in the past.
Working paper
The highway of civilisation and common sense: street regulation and the transformation of social space in 19th and early 20th century Melbourne
It is incontestable that the motor age changed the face of urban life forever. What is more problematic is its role as the prime instrument of this spatial and cultural shift. To what extent did the motor car in fact accelerate a long process of spatial redefinition dating back long before its advent?