In recent decades outdated noise, planning and liquor laws, encroaching residential development, and the rise of more lucrative forms of entertainment for venue operators, such as poker machines, have acted singly or in combination to close many live music venues in Australia.

This paper summarises the literature on planning approaches to protected areas generally, concentrating upon the interface between urban areas and projected areas while looking to apply this literature to natural world heritage areas.

Social justice is widely accepted as a normative goal in contemporary urban planning. Achieving this goal, however, is one of the major challenges for present cities and city planners.

Urban rehabilitation, regeneration and renewal have intermittently been identified within federal (as well as state) policy circles as central to the functioning of Australian cities since at least the 1940s. This paper adds to existing knowledge by exploring the role of the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development (DURD) in the 1970s in facilitating...

This paper examines the approaches taken to incorporate biodiversity conservation in the management of urban growth in Sydney. Problems associated with managing Sydney’s growth – particularly from the intersection of dealing with perceived property rights and the protection of natural resources such as biodiversity – are identified.