The focus of this paper is a comparison of the history of the governance of regional public land acquisition in Perth and Sydney, with the case for the selection of these two cities established by a contrast of the planning approaches used.

Drawing on the experience of Sydney, this paper reviews the issues affecting development of partnership between local governments and universities as more than conventional ‘town-gown’ relations.

This paper uses a comparative policy approach to examine a novel policy instrument typology which is developed and used to review the current policy settings in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relationship between fuel price, land use characteristics and household travel green house gas (GHG) emissions in Sydney, and determine fuel price policy implications to efficiently reduce overall travel GHG emissions in the short-term, taking into account social equity.

This report compares recent spatial changes in population, jobs and commuting patterns for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, and investigates how these changes match up to the strategic planning goals for each city.