Canberra
Article
Living, breathing Canberra
Barnaby Joyce praising Canberra? It’s a reminder of the mixed feelings evoked by the national capital, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Conference paper
Leviathans of leisure? - The licensed club sector within the economic and community life of Canberra
This paper seeks to better conceptualise licensed clubs as a diverse category of organisation, emerging and changing with the unfolding of Australian urban life.
Conference paper
Recovering suburbia: an analysis of suburban form –post fire redevelopment
This paper reports on a study of 250 homes rebuilt after the 2003 Canberra bushfires. It argues the planning regulations that govern building envelopes do not take into consideration the landscape impact of redevelopment in garden suburbs, and that planning controls should consider sanctioning landscape spaces on residential blocks subject to redevelopment.
Conference paper
Community formation and attitudes to sustainability: comparative case studies from Canberra
This paper reports on a case study on community formation and attitudes to sustainability in three Canberra suburbs, building on literature that see a strong sense of community as a necessarily element of making cities more sustainable.
Article
The rise and fall of a Canberra souffle
Over the past week Canberra has fiddled while the world burns, writes Geoffrey Barker on our partner website, INSIDE STORY.