The disciplines of town planning and public health have investigated the connection between walking and neighbourhood form. In particular, Terri Pikora and her colleagues (2003) created a schema to classify a range of potential elements that may influence an adult’s decision to walk.

This paper focuses on the role and use of modelling activities in urban planning and policy development in general. The focus here is on "applied" models, i.e. models which try to simulate real-world processes based on or calibrated to empirical information.

Australia’s National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development endorses the establishment of taxation systems that take into account the social and environmental costs of resource use. In the context of the construction industry, the Green Building Council of Australia similarly promotes the concept of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) and recognises the need to integrate economic instruments...

The research involved examining indicators of sustainability from four case study subdivisions that were marketed as ‘green’, ‘eco’ or ‘sustainable’ or similar. It found a clear gap between the way the subdivision has been designed and the energy efficiency of the houses.

A critical building block of a functional successful city is the presence of vibrant streets; streets that encourage walking. Physical barriers such as rivers, freeways and even railway lines are well recognised as impeding levels of walking activity. The barrier effect is the focus of this paper