While municipal government is most often at the heart of local urban greenspace provision, delivery depends upon internal as well as external factors which can act as disruptors. Drawing upon two case studies, this paper examines which factors most affect urban greenspace in two fast growing cities of Australia and Canada, exploring how they manifest...

This paper outlines the history of the Logan Renewal Initiative and draws learnings from the reversal of a major policy initiative aimed at managing and redeveloping 4,653 public housing dwellings in the Logan City Council.

There is a growing imperative for infrastructure decisions in Australia to be based on evidenced based approaches which are data driven. Urban growth modelling is increasingly being used in strategic infrastructure planning practice. However, current models tend to be "once-off" applications based on static equilibrium approaches that represent little or no behavioural validity.

Consulting the views of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector and government officers who took part in the planning process of Logan Renewal Initiative (LRI) on the project's viability, this paper points to a substantial disconnect and distrust between top-down expectations and what they deem as pragmatic for LRI.

For areas where social housing is clustered, the effect is a concentration of poverty, disadvantage and social problems, along with a stigmatised identity for both the place and its residents. This paper illustrates these contestations by identifying the competing discourses surrounding a planned social housing renewal program in Logan in Queensland.