Behind the Scenes examines planning in the City of Adelaide from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded. During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and development control legislation separate from the rest of the State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines...

By Design takes a stroll through the streets of Adelaide, investigating how the city has changed since the early 20th century. In 1936 photographer Gustav Hermann Baring celebrated the city in his publication Progressive Adelaide: As It Stands Today. This was both a catalogue of commerce and a labour of love. In 2012 photographer Mick...

This paper interrogates metropolitan strategies completed so far – SEQ (Queensland 2009); Adelaide (SA 2010); Perth (WA 2010) and Sydney (NSW 2010) – to identify how each treats the issue of climate change, and whether – and, if so, how – climate change is imagined as a social issue, rather than as a purely environmental...

Metropolitan Adelaide, a city of 1.1 million people, occupying a spatial extent of 1826 km2 at density of a mere 6.1 persons/ha (ABS, 2006), with the release in 2010 of the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide (30YPGA) (GSA, 2010), is potentially at a pivotal point in its development.

This paper draws upon ongoing research that has investigated the redevelopment of the Port Adelaide waterfront in South Australia. Developing previous research (see Rofe & Szili 2009), the authors contend that place names such as Port Adelaide may be so infused with negativity that attempts to renegotiate its meaning through physical redevelopment and traditional place...