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Residents' perspectives on living in inner city medium density housing


This paper joins recent research into the lived experience of newer medium and high density housing by reporting on what residents themselves claimed to be important to their residential experience.
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Livable housing design - is it likely to work?


This paper examines the context in which Livable Housing Design is being implemented and, based on early findings from case-studies in Brisbane, Queensland, the challenges that may need to be met.
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Promoting active transport to school in suburban Melbourne: understanding problems with politics and process


The paper examines actor behaviour and institutional cultures in the processes of Active Transport to School (ATS) policy implementation in local government through an investigation of the Cities of Glen Eira and Boroondara, two middle-ring Melbourne council areas with quite different ATS outcomes.
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The planning of commemorative works in Canberra: on death and sublation


After outlining the issues to be explored and the types of data that can shed light on them, this paper provides a brief history of the major memorials erected in Canberra up until 2002, and the rationales that shaped them. The main focus of the paper is then new commemorative projects that have developed in...
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Local council infrastructure and climate change


This paper examines the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report and the implications this will have on Australia's climate change mitigation, particularly in southern Australia.