The degree to which policy makers and planners can steer new and existing developments towards sustainability is affected by how decision makers understand sustainability. This paper discusses the social dimensions of urban sustainability and measurement issues.

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.

Cities that have opted for Urban Growth Boundaries are faced with a significant decision as to the elasticity of those boundaries and the relationship between urban consolidation and expansion. This paper makes a comparative review of current growth strategies for the major Australian metropolitan areas