Cities and towns
Conference paper
Research, development and innovation: the case of social housing in Mt Druitt, NSW.
This paper explains some of the activities and processes related to the Community and Environment Project (CEP), a partnership between Housing NSW’s Building Stronger Communities Program at Mt Druitt, the Designing Out Crime (DOC) Research Centre at UTS, and the School of Social Work at UWS. The main aim of the partnership is to develop...
Strategy
Our cities, our future: a national urban policy for a productive, sustainable and liveable future
This 2011 policy paper presents the Australian Government's overarching goals for the nation's cities and how we will play a role in making them more productive, sustainable and liveable.
Report
Why the bloody hell live there? First estimates of a Cultural Consumption Price Index by Australian region
There are cultural costs and benefits associated with where one chooses to live in Australia.
Report
Building lives, building community in South Morang, Mernda/Doreen and Whittlesea township growth areas
This project is about the effect of population growth on communities and the social factors which influence how suburbs grow from small townships to larger suburbs.
Discussion paper
Our cities: the challenge of change
The Australian Government is committed to improving the productivity, sustainability and liveability of our cities. This long-term policy endeavour is vast, complex and should not be underestimated. Urban policy is grounded in a geographic consideration of place and the people that interact with that place. It considers how policy settings and investment decisions of governments...