This chapter reviews the major strategic plans produced for Melbourne since 2000, and
discusses their overall direction, style and means of implementation. It begins with an …

This paper explores the role of stakeholder engagement in metropolitan planning within
liberal democracies, such as Australia, and in particular the use of Geographic Information …

Australian state planning authorities, in seeking to impose order in activity centre networks,
prepare high-level strategic plans to regulate the distribution, composition and size of activity …

Policies and plans directing urban growth towards urban centres is common among cities in
Australasia and North America, with the idea of establishing compact urban form, urban …

This paper describes an empirical case study of the Subiaco town centre in Western
Australia. The research method employs geospatial mapping of archival and contemporary …

Achieving compact urban development is an urban planning policy approach embedded in
a range of urban growth management strategies typically found in Australasian and some …

In 2017 The Economist magazine named Melbourne as the world's most liveable city for the
seventh year in a row (Economist Intelligence Unit 2017). This achievement was cause for …

Achieving compact urban development is a policy approach embedded in a range of urban
growth management strategies typically found in Australasia and some North America cities …

In 2000 the authors published The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History, an account of
the evolution of Australian metropolitan planning from the early years of colonial settlement …

If ubiquity and physical prominence are a guide, retailing is one of the most dominant
representations of economic activity in typical western space economies. With an eye …