The emergence of gated residential spaces in Australian cities has begun to attract the attention of researchers, policy makers, governments and planners. This paper considers the desire and need for security, and the formation of community and the mechanism of community title in gated communities.

This paper discusses the role of community gardens in building healthy and sustainable communities. Focussing on a large high-rise public housing estate in Sydney’s inner west, the community garden scheme studied was part of an urban renewal program designed to ameliorate ongoing social problems on the estate.

This paper addresses the governance of Strata Title developments, in the context of current metropolitan planning strategies based on increased higher density urban consolidation in Australia.

Most electoral studies research on Australian cities has focused on the characteristics of voters in a city. This research focus examines the geography of a political party’s electoral performance across a particular urban electoral landscape.

The cross city tunnel in Sydney has been a fairly spectacular failure as a Public Private Partnership – the operating company has gone into receivership less than 2 years after the tunnel opening in August 2005.