Using data from VCAT’s registry from July 2012 to June 2014, this paper examines the role of direct costs in influencing planning participation by both planning applicants and objectors across the Melbourne metropolitan area.

Employing data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey for 2013 and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this study finds a link between a more walkable neighbourhood and wellbeing, mediated to a very marginal degree by physical activity.

This paper maps the time/space zones of accessibility from any given location (isochrones) as a means to understand the ways we make choices between modes – a space/time phenomenology of everyday mobility.

This paper traces the evolution of public transport accessibility in Melbourne and link the documented changes to the political process.

This paper reports on data from a recent Survey of Community Wellbeing and Responding to Change conducted in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) in inner, middle, outer, and urban fringe areas of Melbourne.