This paper draws on eight interviews conducted with housing and investment stakeholders in Melbourne currently involved in affordable housing, or with potential for such involvement.

This paper outlines the threats to the city and countermeasures illustrated by case studies including projects for Sydney Rail, and the Sydney Opera House.

The growth of Australia’s major cities is revealing a number of problems. For most of the post WWII period they grew in accordance with the form and structure of highly centralized cities.

This paper examines how key actors in the affordable housing industry work together in affordable housing partnerships.

Informed by research on the practices of how city builders materialise architecture in Global Sydney, this paper argues that deploying assemblage thinking – with the analytical attention that it is able to afford to practices – is able to challenge the hegemonic claims of orthodox approaches to understanding architecture in the global city.