Given the conspicuous and wide-ranging effects emanating from planning, this paper takes as its starting point the proposition that all planning, not least that directed at Australian cities, must address and resolve the issue of legitimacy in terms of what justifies its decision making and intervention(s)

To plan the future energy security of Western Australia, the energy utility Western Power embraced the principle of community engagement to inform corporate strategies towards green energy visions. This paper explores the quality of citizen involvement.

This paper reports on a case study on community formation and attitudes to sustainability in three Canberra suburbs, building on literature that see a strong sense of community as a necessarily element of making cities more sustainable.

Social justice is widely accepted as a normative goal in contemporary urban planning. Achieving this goal, however, is one of the major challenges for present cities and city planners.

Since taking office in December 2007, the Rudd Government has made social inclusion a key theme in its approach to social policy. This paper suggests that the concept of social inclusion lacks a clear definition and coherent theoretical core. The term social inclusion is conceptually problematic in that it limits its scope to threshold issues...