Built environment
Conference paper
Foreign investment in Australian housing: global housing demand and impacts in the local housing market
This paper investigates the underlying drivers attracting cross-border investment to housing market across Australia, explores how these ‘pull factors’ varied before and after the changes of foreign investment policy settings, and how shifting foreign investment regulations over the past decade influenced local housing affordability.
Conference paper
‘Sense of place’: policy definition and evaluation
This study provides illustration of the cognitive, affective and behavioral components of 'sense of place' through three case studies from Victoria.
Conference paper
Flexible growth scenarios in Melbourne: impacts and opportunities of diversified dwelling supply
This paper presents a series of speculative growth scenarios in Melbourne that test how medium-density infill models can respond to short- and long-term housing needs.
Conference paper
Electronic cities: music, policies and space in the 21st Century
This paper discusses an edited collection on city policies targeting ‘creativity’ and offers additional insights on cultural and creative policies, planning interventions and regulations associated with nightlife management. It provides a detailed analysis of current challenges inherent to the governance of Electronic Dance Music scenes in contemporary cities.
Conference paper
Why communities protest: a case study of the protest signs of Yaroomba (SE Qld)
This study uses a case study of community activism at Yaroomba, a small town on the Sunshine Coast (SC) of South East Queensland, Australia, to illustrate a campaign of resistance to a proposed beachfront highrise development. The paper's aim was the artefact analysis of these signs as a representation of a community’s voice of protest...