Whilst we now know much about the value of active transport for physical activity there is less information available on the extent or characteristics of this travel within Australian cities.

If there is an increasing spatial mismatch between housing and employment, moderately paid workers, essential to the efficient functioning of the urban economy, may face problems in accessing and retaining employment.

Drawing on AHURI research, this paper considers the potential transferability of established and new international models, focusing on the delivery of metropolitan planning commitments for affordable housing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide.

This paper has reviewed the principal attempts to address regional landscape and open space initiatives for the City of Brisbane and region in the past.

The paper explores metropolitan strategies' misfits, and their occasional felicitous connections, in the context of greater Sydney, metropolitan Melbourne and SE Queensland, where there are now headline debates about the way we wish to live in those cities and about the standards and modes of procurement of urban infrastructure to support such life.