Cities and towns
Conference paper
Digital suburbs? Some policy implications of greater domestic connectivity
This paper seeks to present whether domestic broadband has seen more people to work from home and use internet based services or has led to the physicality of service provision, job access and socialisation to be even more important.
Conference paper
The wander years: estate renewal, temporary relocation and place(lessness) in Bonnyrigg, NSW
This paper presents a longitudinal study, which included interviews with 97 Bonnyrigg families that are living through various stages of the renewal, which was conducted during 2012. Outcomes of these interviews show that while the community physically remains ‘in place’ during renewal, feelings of ‘limbo’ and a sense of placelessness were pervasive amongst sections of...
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Vertical mixed use communities, a compact city model?
Cities have advocated more compact development patterns to address the need to accommodate a burgeoning urban population. One such compact model is the vertical mixed-use (VMU) development.
Conference paper
Planning for organized sport in the fringe suburbs of Australia cities: a case study of Perth
This paper analyses the reduction of supply in active playing fields in new suburbs and how this effects outer metropolitan areas in Perth.
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New housing development at Hobsonville: promoting and buying into a "natural" community
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.