This paper joins recent research into the lived experience of newer medium and high density housing by reporting on what residents themselves claimed to be important to their residential experience.

This paper presents how existing low, medium and high density residential developments with respective dwelling typologies could be retrofitted effectively with renewable energy infrastructure provisions.

High rise housing has become an increasingly popular form of urban development in Australian capital cities. Yet the effects of high rise residences on children’s well-being remain largely neglected by researchers and policy-makers. This paper reports the preliminary findings of research in central Melbourne with 39 children in public housing and newer middle-class high rises.

Compact city policies such as Melbourne 2030 have been established in Australia for a range of reasons including climate change. It is now clear that the Melbourne 2030 policy has not been effective – with new development mostly on the urban fringe. This policy failure has often been sheeted home to resident and local government...

Urban consolidation policies and higher density housing development have become major drivers of urban change in Australia. The realisation of these policies relies almost entirely on the provision of strata titled dwellings, necessitating an exploration of governance arrangements, rights and responsibilities for the multiple stakeholders.