Three overarching issues are being considered through this Multi-Year Research Project (MYRP):

This paper presents findings from a study that includes a new investigation of the Tarikaka settlement in Wellington, New Zealand. The housing settlement was constructed in 1928-29 by the Department of Railways with the houses rented to their workers.

This paper locates the origins of New Zealand’s low-density urban settlement pattern or sprawl in capitalist social relations and the cultural practices of the first settlers during the 1840s and 1850s. While the grid plans of towns conveyed notions of order and regularity, the commercial imperative to maximise the profit-making potential of urban land created...

Despite the plethora of rental research, a significant gap remains in understanding the relationship between rental housing and 'transport disadvantage'. This project analyses the changing spatial concentration of lower-income renter households in Melbourne and Sydney and connects this with changes in transport opportunity.

Suburban employment centres established within a master planned community (MPC) are now becoming a common feature in these large scale developments. This paper will provide the contextual background of this issue by investigating the supply and demand requirements of firms and what Master Planned Community (MPC) employment centres can do to attract them. However, these...