This paper explores the rhetoric and symbolism of community deployed to sell residential properties at Hobsonville Point, a new government-owned master-planned medium-density development of over 3000 new, 10km to the northwest of Auckland’s CBD.

This paper seeks to establish an understanding of resource use in the aged care sector through an examination of a case study site, what capacity exists within the case study to reduce resource use and in particular energy and water, and ultimately add to the research in this important area.

This paper presents some findings from a survey undertaken in medium-density apartment housing in Fairfield, Sydney between September-December 2012 as part of a Ph.D. thesis.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the application of the concept of community policing across three separate geographic locations, which have different social settings.

This paper correlates individual villages with small area 2011 ABS Census data to build up a picture of Australian retirement village residents. This is in comparison to other types of living other retirees experience.