With particular reference to Johnstons Creek Stormwater Channel in inner-western Sydney, this paper examines community and managing bodies’ changing perception and values of urban waterways.

This paper seeks to argue that focusing on increasing residential densities across metropolitan areas in the name of sustainability, is problematic.

This paper reports on the network theoretic analysis street networks of Sydney CBD and suburbs.

This paper examines the tension between urban policy and reform at all levels of Australian government, with reference to the alignment, or misalignment, of urban policy aspirations and reform to regulatory systems and processes.

This paper draws on thinking about the post-political condition to critique recent strategic planning practices in NSW. Thinkers such as Mouffe, Rancière and Swynedouw suggest that we are now in an era founded on the suppression of the inherent conflictual or political nature of social action.