Drawing on AHURI research, this paper considers the potential transferability of established and new international models, focusing on the delivery of metropolitan planning commitments for affordable housing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide.

While work in planning around violence prevention has traditionally focused on crime prevention through environmental design, this research suggests a broadened role for spatial planning, related to social service provision, evidence-based ‘whole of government’ coordinated action, and engendering changes in attitudes towards public and private space.

This paper investigates changes in the location of urban employment, focussing on suburban dispersal and the emergence of suburban employment concentrations.

This paper introduces the suite of local area indicators compiled during the Transport, Accessibility and Mobility Indicators (TAMI) pilot project in 2006-07 and reflect on the opportunities and barriers encountered in their application to the local planning process.

Urban consolidation is a major policy plank in the management of Australian metropolitan development. At its heart are a set of actions designed to reduce the land used by housing in the urban development process.