The global city literature postulates that economic restructuring and integration within global cities is accompanied by increasing polarisation. This paper examines and compares economic restructuring trends in three Australian cities – Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide – and asks whether the global city concept is useful in helping us understand the impact of economic restructuring on...

Globalisation in the education sector has produced a different cluster of inner area residents that in some cases may be more numerous and perhaps even more influential on local city outcomes in housing and retail activity than the workers associated with advanced services.

The paper reviews the approach advocated in the Melbourne strategic plan, 'Melbourne 2030', to planning for outer urban development in Melbourne. It analyses governance and current policy, and places the Melbourne 2030 objective of increased outer urban densities in the context of best international practice and historical approaches.

This paper critically engages with these understandings of master-planned estates (MPEs) in the Australian context.

This paper examines the claimed capacity constraints on the Melbourne rail system in detail, utilising throughput standards derived from current best practice, but also from past performance and planning in Melbourne, and concludes that the claimed constraints are not substantiated.