Cities and towns
Conference paper
Social capital and sustainability of urban environmental groups in Perth
While the utility of Urban Environmental Groups (UEGs) has been recognized by several environmental policies and programs, the challenges of sustaining UEGs remain under-explored, especially, in Western Australia.
Conference paper
Perth’s regional parks – providing for biodiversity conservation and public recreation through a multi-agency approach
This paper examines the evolution of the eleven regional parks in metropolitan Perth from concept to reality and explores some of the difficulties and benefits of managing parks in an environment where multiple tenure (including private landowners), community engagement and multiple agency involvement across different levels of government is the norm, rather than the exception.
Conference paper
Graffiti and urban character
The focus in this paper is on the ways graffiti is seen by residents to contribute to or damage urban character or place identity.
Conference paper
Green regional design: philosophies, policies and products in the evolution of metropolitan open space in Sydney 1948-2008
The aim of this paper is to investigate how and to what extent the provision of major open spaces has been integrated (or not) into the metropolitan planning process in Sydney over the last 60 years.
Conference paper
Commercial development on Australian airports: planning issues and debates through the lens of the National Aviation Policy Review
This paper analyses nearly 200 submissions to the National Aviation Policy Review addressing nonaeronautical activities on federally leased airport land, and focuses specifically on the problematic issue of commercial airport enterprises.