Urban planning
Alternative labels
Urban policy
Urban design
City planning
Urban development
Urban areas
Conference paper
Seniors' playgrounds may never get old
This paper introduces the concept of seniors’ playgrounds, documents their brief history and provides some planning principles and considerations based on current practice.
Conference paper
Regional innovation and public wi-fi
The paper focuses on the link between regional development, social enterprise and digital infrastructure, through analysis of an initiative in Goulburn NSW, in which local entrepreneurs rigged up a wi-fi network, providing free internet access to the public in the city’s main street.
Conference paper
Creating a centre for the centre-less city: the case of the Gold Coast
This paper examines this unusual case in order to determine how successful a newly created CBD can be and what factors are important in its planning.
Conference paper
Alternative futures for Melbourne's peri-urban regions
Using a case study of Melbourne’s peri-urban region, this paper explores the capacity for regional growth under different spatial scenarios.
Conference paper
Image analysis of urban design representation towards alternatives
This paper is a critical exploration of visual representation of urban places. The paper examines extracts from one Australian case study, the document An Urban Design Framework: A Vision for Perth 2050 (UDF), and makes comparisons between prior analysis of urban plans and the visual language of the UDF.