The ageing of the Australian population has become a major focus for policy makers, and ‘ageing-in-place’ and ‘positive and healthy ageing’ have become central tenets in emerging policy.

Mechanisms for transitioning towards a low carbon economy include technological shifts, policy development and programs that require changes in behaviour. Arguably, local councils are well positioned to drive some or all of these.

This paper explores a hypothesis for the location of firms in a particular industrial cluster and posits that the influence of local economic development strategies have their limitations.

Reviewing Perth’s current strategy of providing park-and-ride-facilities and promoting transit oriented developments, this paper examines the planning issues relating to parking and access around transit nodes.

This paper reports on a case study on community formation and attitudes to sustainability in three Canberra suburbs, building on literature that see a strong sense of community as a necessarily element of making cities more sustainable.