This paper engages creative non-fiction to introduce challenging and politically charged issues. It navigates through such tensions by way of a narrative, to give meaning, depth and context by offering a more accessible engagement to the complex real property rights that confront us in the urban milieu.

CATCH/iMATCH is a three-year research project examining the influence of the built, social and policy environments on children’s independent mobility and active travel in Australia. This paper presents the findings of the ‘Citizen Kid’ Planning Group and explores some of the lessons for both research and for planning practice, that have been highlighted in this...

Through a mixed-methods retrospective case study of an ‘extreme’ instance of community opposition to affordable housing development in the Western Sydney LGA of Parramatta, this paper looks at how and why community opposition to affordable housing escalated between 2009 and 2011, addressing this gap in knowledge.

This paper focuses on a number of water based interactive art installations/sculptures and their role in creating dynamic, fun, yet economically and socially viable urban spaces.

The global Sydney thesis has been argued largely from an economic-centric perspective, focusing on Sydney’s integration with the world economy, and the effect of economic globalisation. This article employs a different perspective to approach global Sydney, and pays attention to its growing migration as a global city.