This report is concerned with the nature of housing occupancy for households that rent, particularly low-income and vulnerable households.

On 6 March 2007, the Council for Culture (Raad voor Cultuur) presented the Dutch government with recommendations under the title ?Innovate, participate? (Innoveren, participeren) relating to the agenda for cultural policy in the coming years and the government?s plans for a new subsidies system. An English version of the section on the 'Cultural Policy Agenda'...

This paper posits important lessons to be learned about how to deal with the crisis of urban sprawl in Australia through current planning and design work occurring in the Netherlands and United States where the debate about urban development is focussed on how to achieve new forms of rural/urban/natural landscapes.

A pattern is emerging in Western liberal democracies, in which centre-left and social democratic governments are losing power to centre-right governments. This paper outlines the extent of this pattern, and discusses factors that may be contributing to the process, such as a pendulum swing effect and the centre-right's greater success in capitalising on "value politics"...