Roxby Downs: a lost opportunity by urban planning and design

In hegemonic economic theories, base activity, which taps into exogenous capital flows as exports, underpins endogenous activity within urban environments. Historically, urban development in the remote arid and semi-arid interior of Australia has occurred on the back of the exploitation of mineral resources. Major interior towns such as Ballarat, Bendigo, Mt Isa, and Kalgoorlie owe...