Accompanying Newcastle's economic, social and physical changes have been various attempts to reshape Newcastle’s image, to overcome the city’s lingering association with crisis and decay. This paper provides a case study of two key players in this process, the official Brand Newcastle rebranding campaign and the unofficial revitalisation project Renew Newcastle, drawing on interviews conducted...

Since the turn of the millennium and in particular since the centenary, there has been a partial redirection of attention on the significant planning history of Canberra and the need for a two-level planning system that works. This paper focuses on the struggle to reach this point, most notably in the proliferation of inquiries, plans...

Recent debates about manufacturing in Australia emphasize the primacy of macroeconomic conditions (high dollar, cheap overseas imports), but provide limited discussion of the dynamics and contingencies within cities and regions that shape outcomes . This paper acknowledges that macroeconomic forces have urban/regional effects, but does not simplistically assume that decline is ‘inevitable’.

This paper defines different segments of Sydney’s housing markets, and investigates how home prices and rents varied across those markets.

The objective of this paper is to assess the factors influencing the economic growth of Victoria’s regional cities and identify the strategic policy options to accelerate this growth.