New residential land in the outer suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne is predominantly being developed in the form of Masterplanned Estates. These areas are becoming culturally diverse with a significant proportion of recently arrived migrants settling there. This paper investigates the aspirations of the residents of choosing to live there and the influence the concept of...

Social-ecological systems are breaking down at local, regional, and global scales, and sustainability seems an increasingly distant aspiration. Social harmony and economic systems are connected to ecological systems and climate, in multiple complex ways, at many scales.

This paper explores engagement with the experience economy and understandings of the living experience by developers and residents of master planned estates.

This paper focuses on the results from 250 children that completed travel diaries to assess children's travel behaviour in Australian cities.

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...