Melbourne
Conference paper
I think planning is about chipping away at stuff: the voices and activities of public service planners working in Melbourne
This paper seeks to find out what planners do and why. It begins with a review of selected UK and USA literature on the ethical dilemmas faced by practising planners.
Conference paper
Contested decision making in commemorative planning and regulation
This paper analyses the decisions made during the development of public memorial proposals in Canberra and Melbourne. It develops a general model of the memorial development process and characterises four distinct procurement approaches used: open competitions, invited competitions, direct commissioning, and ‘grassroots’ initiatives that bypass formal planning procedures.
Conference paper
Are master-planned new urbanist suburbs a 'solution' for sustainable travel to schools? Comparing children's travel in select Australian primary schools
This paper focuses on the results from 250 children that completed travel diaries to assess children's travel behaviour in Australian cities.
Conference paper
Active transport - comparative analysis Melbourne
This paper explores trends in journey to work activity across metropolitan Melbourne area by active transport (walking and cycling).
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City cycling at the crossroads can Australia learn from Northern Europe?
This paper explores barriers to and enablers for safe cycling by comparing Inner Melbourne to two leading Northern European cycling cities: Amsterdam and Copenhagen.