This paper compares the settlements in Zurich's Weinland region with those on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, focussing in particular on population density and journey-to-work mode shares.

This paper analyses the mechanisms that encourage car use in Australia. With the help of a survey, it also looks closer into the gap between the intension and the real actions of the environmentally conscious public organisations and individuals when it comes to car use.

Drawing on research findings from empirical survey research with sixty social planning practitioners in Australia, the paper briefly explores the diversity and shifting landscape of social planning practice over the past century before drawing on the survey findings to develop a picture of current social planning practice within Australia and the challenges and opportunities that...

By combining a random sample of primary schools in Sydney with detailed traffic volume data, we estimate the impact of traffic pollution on the health of primary school children in Sydney.

This paper explores two significant changes to the policy framework directing development assessment in NSW over the past 5 years: the implementation of Part 3A within the NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979; and, a series of reforms implemented under the Improving the NSW Planning System agenda.