This paper enquires into the underlining values and beliefs internalised by professional transport planners, and how such values and beliefs play out against institutional and practical constraints planners face daily during their attempts to develop transport systems in a more sustainable manner.

This paper examines the approaches taken to incorporate biodiversity conservation in the management of urban growth in Sydney. Problems associated with managing Sydney’s growth – particularly from the intersection of dealing with perceived property rights and the protection of natural resources such as biodiversity – are identified.

There is a crisis in the funding of infrastructure backlogs across urban Australia, and nowhere is this more marked than perhaps in the outer metropolitan growth councils of our large cities. This paper looks at the infrastructure challenges facing Perth’s outer metropolitan growth councils.

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.

Using Melbourne as a case study and drawing from an international literature, this paper reviews the purposes of urban growth boundaries and their potential impacts on land prices.