Reviewing Perth’s current strategy of providing park-and-ride-facilities and promoting transit oriented developments, this paper examines the planning issues relating to parking and access around transit nodes.

Using the example of the Western Australian Government Railway Workshops at Midland, now a State heritage icon, this paper argues that there is significant social and historical value in retaining and reusing industrial sites, appropriately and sensitively interpreting their past.

There is a crisis in the funding of infrastructure backlogs across urban Australia, and nowhere is this more marked than perhaps in the outer metropolitan growth councils of our large cities. This paper looks at the infrastructure challenges facing Perth’s outer metropolitan growth councils.

The report, which was commissioned by the Wheatbelt Development Commission in partnership with the Avon Community Development Foundation, placed a special emphasis on the Avon Industrial Park (AIP), and also made recommendations for future strategic actions. Many industries and communities in rural Australia experience skilled labour shortages that restrict the economic and social functions of...

Through an examination of urban and urban deferred rezonings to the Metropolitan Region Scheme, this research paper is concerned with the process of urban expansion as experienced in Perth, Western Australia between 1970 and 2005.