Despite boom times, the people of Perth have been noted for their apparent unwillingness to accept large projects designed to invigorate the city of Perth. In this paper historical evidence is used to examine two of the waterfront schemes and their results.

To what extent do local planning frameworks promote sustainable growth and change in Australian cities and regions? This paper begins to address this question with reference to the results of an online survey of more than 100 NSW local environmental plans, undertaken between August 2007-2008.

There is extensive commentary on the role of public, unauthorised art in western cities, but little on the coincidence of heritage value and guerilla art. This paper analyses the relationship of the two in a statue of a 1940s swimmer entitled Eliza which was unveiled in the Swan River in Crawley, Perth in 2007.

Urban fringe residential estates continue to dominate the residential development sector in Australia. Several practice based sustainability assessment tools have recently been developed which acknowledge the impacts of such developments and attempt to improve outcomes. This paper examines how sustainability principles and concepts are presented and applied in such assessment tools, focusing on two Australian...

This paper enquires into the underlining values and beliefs internalised by professional transport planners, and how such values and beliefs play out against institutional and practical constraints planners face daily during their attempts to develop transport systems in a more sustainable manner.