Weak tie relationships are particularly important in a local high density environment because they provide low-level social and practical support while maintaining privacy. The research provides insights into how people use high density spaces socially, and which kinds of spaces are likely to facilitate the maintenance of weak ties.

This paper develops a model to test the feasibility of the renewal of existing multi-unit housing across the Sydney Metropolitan Region and aims to demonstrate the practical outcome that would be required for redevelopment to occur under ‘business as usual’ scenarios.

Informed by research on the practices of how city builders materialise architecture in Global Sydney, this paper argues that deploying assemblage thinking – with the analytical attention that it is able to afford to practices – is able to challenge the hegemonic claims of orthodox approaches to understanding architecture in the global city.

This paper goes beneath the quantitative analysis of regulatory difference to understand qualitatively how different planning settings might affect residential development decisions and patterns of new housing supply in four metropolitan regions.

This study was commissioned by The Challenging Racism Project of Western Sydney University (WSU) and the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy Australia (ISRA) affiliated with Charles Sturt University (CSU) to investigate the experiences and perceptions of ordinary everyday Muslims in Sydney and whether the perceptions of incompatibility and disaffection of Muslims are true, and whether...