Trees are known for their positive impacts in cities including: the provision of shade, reducing heat island effects, improving amenity, reducing social vulnerability, processing carbon and improving health outcomes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, greening policies at the local and state level have proliferated. Despite these initiatives, tree cover remains stubbornly uneven.

This paper revises the multi-level perspective to analyse policy innovations within urban transitions. This investigation is concerned with demonstrating how live/work accelerates as a sustainability transition and which governance structures, approaches to planning, and actors influence the process

This paper looks at a new public transport scenario for facilitating a more effective access within Melbourne. This scenario is focused on providing high-volume lateral links across middle-ring suburbs that might complement the existing public transport infrastructure and provide a more convenient access.

Drawing on a City of Sydney database, and set against the wider institutional context, this paper identifies the major characteristics of urban planning developments and key aspects of the competitive process involved in terms of timelines, participants and outcomes.

This paper uses the example of New Zealand’s national transport funding policy and allocation processes to demonstrate how an unreflective use of the term resilience results in lost opportunities to pursue a low carbon future, and works against the concept of resilience itself.