With the aim of contributing to the literature on Australia’s settlement system by focusing on large scale urbanisation outside of the capital cities this paper provides an in-depth look at Australia’s sixth largest city, often taken too lightly. The purpose of the paper is two-fold: to question the accuracy of some widely held beliefs about...

This paper provides a brief background to what drove renewal projects in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide and their current status, the changing priorities of government, the shifting commercial environment and current challenges faced by those seeking to plan these new urban spaces.

Using Australia’s largest city, Sydney, as a case study, this paper utilises and maps an urban form typology relevant to Australian cities before applying household behaviour indices to compare the relative sustainability merits of different urban form types. This paper will outline the methodology being used for this research before presenting some preliminary findings from...

This paper takes an adventurous – perhaps idiosyncratic - look at how research might better drive insights into the complexity of the city and shape and illuminate policy options to address problems and issues.

This paper examines the changes in policy and governance style favoured by Australian governments from the 1940s to 90s, and the shifts to and away from utilization of the market, government intervention, localism and participation over that time. It proposes a set of “governance technologies” to better structure analysis and inform policy choices.