For many people, Australia was ‘settled’ soon after European occupation, through the actions of hardy, resourceful and sometime foolhardy ‘settlers’.

Western Australian State Government coastal policy has influenced coastal land use, although the implementation of land use change has been driven more by powerful externalities than the immediate policy process.

This paper discusses the role of community gardens in building healthy and sustainable communities. Focussing on a large high-rise public housing estate in Sydney’s inner west, the community garden scheme studied was part of an urban renewal program designed to ameliorate ongoing social problems on the estate.

The city comprises a milieu of competing and complementary property rights, ranging from the individual to the communal. Whilst property rights provide a coherent legal, economic and social framework for the relationship between people, place and property, they are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by the multiplicity of stakeholders sharing the space that is the contemporary...

Urban consolidation is a major policy plank in the management of Australian metropolitan development. At its heart are a set of actions designed to reduce the land used by housing in the urban development process.