Melbourne’s metropolitan strategy Melbourne 2030 was conceived in 1999, born in 2002, pronounced dead in 2009 and finally buried, unmourned and unloved, in 2011. When the newly-elected Baillieu government announced earlier this year that it intended to scrap Melbourne 2030 and replace it with a new metropolitan planning strategy, the response was a deafening silence...

The paper examines actor behaviour and institutional cultures in the processes of Active Transport to School (ATS) policy implementation in local government through an investigation of the Cities of Glen Eira and Boroondara, two middle-ring Melbourne council areas with quite different ATS outcomes.

The measurement of affordability is important to understanding who has housing affordability issues; the spatial variation of these issues; and the extent of the problem in the community. Although housing affordability has commonly been measured as a simple ratio of income to housing costs, this paper presents an argument for the use of a different...

Using two case studies of recent and rapid peri-urbanisation (namely South East Queensland and greater Melbourne, the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Australia), this paper considers if this process can lead to resilient landscapes capable of withstanding future potential environmental and socio economic shocks and surprises – it asks the question: how resilient are peri-urban...

Taking regional growth into consideration, the purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between regional areas and Melbourne. Journey to Work data in 2006 indicated that almost 11,000 work journeys to the Melbourne Statistical Division (MSD) were from the major regional LGAs of Ballarat, Greater Bendigo, Greater Geelong, and Latrobe.