Australia is regularly cited as one of the most highly urbanised countries in the world. However, a significant proportion of people living in Australia’s three largest cities live at relatively low ‘suburban’ densities. . This raises the question as to how the densification of Australian cities has been achieved, and whether there are alternative models...

This paper goes beneath the quantitative analysis of regulatory difference to understand qualitatively how different planning settings might affect residential development decisions and patterns of new housing supply in four metropolitan regions.

This paper proposes a new approach to the problem of measuring the geography of trade flows. The paper’s initial premise is that cities are nodes in the global trading network and their relative value as nodes change as the geography of the network continually shifts.

This paper reports on a design research project commissioned by the Council of Mayors (SEQ) that investigated design strategies for improving the liveability and sustainability of medium density infill development, and sought to provide an evidence base for the benefits and costs of incorporating such strategies.

This research project’s methodology employed a critical theory research paradigm, a semi-structured interview, multiple site visits and the collection of quantitative retail data to compare planning and consumer outcomes between Garden City in Brisbane and Wujiaochang in Shanghai.