It's well known that Australia is one of the most urbanised countries, with many state governments fast-tracking development and population growth, promising to change the face of our major cities in coming decades. So against this backdrop, how 'walkable' will our cities be? According to visiting American city planner and architectural designer Jeff Speck, a...

The ‘City as a Commons’—the idea of urban commoning—is an emerging body of ideas and practices, that have the potential to transform the ways in which we experience and shape our urban environments. This reader attempts to bring various dimensions of urban commoning into one place, in a format that is easy to digest, communicate...

The purpose of this paper is to set out the elements of the Best Practice Policy Framework and associated Action Plans. They are offered as tools for APEC policymakers at national and sub-national levels of government responsible for infrastructure development.

From the late 1920s to at least the mid-1940s, David Lomas Davidson (1893-1952) was the most powerful and influential administrator in town planning in Australia. As Town Planning Commissioner for Western Australia from 1929 until his death, his job was to implement the spirit and letter of the Town Planning and Development Act 1928. Davidson’s...

When ‘quiet voiced pragmatist’ Fred Pooley (1916-1998) visited Australia as guest of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in the summer of late 1981, he was recently retired from practice; a past president of the RIBA and seemingly best known for his role – such as it was – in the development of Milton Keynes...