Population density
Strategy
Sustainable Australia - sustainable communities: a sustainable population strategy for Australia
This Sustainable Population Strategy outlines the Government's framework for a sustainable Australia. It will help to ensure that future population change is compatible with the economic, environmental and social wellbeing of Australia.
Report
Transforming Australian cities: for a more financially viable and sustainable future
This study looks at the potential yield that could accrue through good urban design of the urban corridors/strategic sites. A number of assumptions, as illustrated below, were made in determining the potential for future development along these tram and bus corridors.
Conference paper
Watching the Swiss: lessons for public transport and density in peri-urban Australia
This paper compares the settlements in Zurich's Weinland region with those on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, focussing in particular on population density and journey-to-work mode shares.
Conference paper
How dense are we? Another look at urban density and transport patterns in Australia, Canada and the USA
As a result of recent changes to data collection and publication systems by the Australian, Canadian and United States national census agencies, it is now possible to compare urban densities and transport mode shares (for the journey to work) across the three countries’ urban areas on a consistent basis. This paper presents the results of...
Conference paper
Not in my republic: resident opposition to intensification in inner-city Melbourne
Based on interviews with residents who have been involved in resistance to high rise development, this paper explores the ways Brunswick is experienced and the characteristics of developments that are opposed.