The focus in this paper is on the ways graffiti is seen by residents to contribute to or damage urban character or place identity.

Australia's large capital cities metropolitan areas in which diverse needs, players and topics have to be coordinated. Mostly, this is done bu the state government or by groups of local councils. However, there are no regional authorities dealing with metropolitan issues such as pressures of growth or sustainable development.

High rise housing has become an increasingly popular form of urban development in Australian capital cities. Yet the effects of high rise residences on children’s well-being remain largely neglected by researchers and policy-makers. This paper reports the preliminary findings of research in central Melbourne with 39 children in public housing and newer middle-class high rises.

This paper presents the application of a detailed GIS-based spacial analysis tool to determine how the public transport networks in Melbourne and Hamburg are configured, how responsive they are to the geographical distribution and concentration of residents and jobs across the urban structure, and how capably they provide accessibility and convenience of travel across the...

This paper traces the construction of the problem and solution which City link represents, and one of the technologies used in the project, to determine the specific art of government (AoG) of Melbourne’s City Link project.