Exploring the biography of the Sydney Hilton (opened in 1974 and recently refurbished), this paper suggests that hotels play a very important part in the urban economies of central business districts.

A considerable body of research seeks to map and measure the impact of the creative industries. This is constrained in cities like Adelaide by a narrow conceptualisation of creativity that fails to reveal how diffuse creativity is within the economy and society.

Shrinkage is not a topic of much discussion in most OECD countries where the planning paradigm of growth has dominated the scene for many years. However, the debate has recently intensified in Germany, specially regarding its Eastern cities, posing new questions about the efficiency and sustainability of planning for urban growth in an era of...

This research suggests that in an age of ‘ubiquities’, only labour remains embedded locally and asks therefore if labour is the bedrock of industrial clusters? The paper revisits regulation theory – and a case study of an ‘unglamorous’ but resilient manufacturing sector in Melbourne’s north.

This paper reviews the evolving role of local government and considers the present practice and framework for raising revenue through the rating of land.