This paper offers a preliminary framework to structure examination of the potential challenges faced by those who advise political decision-makers as they navigate amongst strategies to address increased risk associated with coastal high hazard zones, looking particularly at issues of information selection and technical literacy in communication of risks, and path dependency in determining likely...

This paper seeks to understand e-planning as a range of planning activities that are taking place online. Eplanning can refer variously to the systems used to submit and track development applications online, online planning certification tools, blogs and discussion forums hosted by authorities and tools for envisioning future scenarios.

This paper reviews a program of engagement with urban communities in the city of Melbourne, known as EcoAcupuncture (EcoA), that has been developed over the last three years to respond to the challenges of the impending 'post-carbon' revolution. The critical question addressed by that program and considered in this paper is: How can we effectively...

Historically, Town Planning has been concerned with protecting public health and safety. Indeed, earliest town planning legislation in the UK grew out of public health legislation. Over time planning broadened its focus and the role of planners by adding new areas within its scope of concerns. Meanwhile, public health organisations such as the World Health...

This study takes an urban functional angle to investigate the transformations of Central Sydney in the context of contemporary globalisation.