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An incisive 1995 exploration of urban planning and policy, and the problems facing urban Australia in the 1990s.
Author : Patrick Troy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521484374
An incisive 1995 exploration of urban planning and policy, and the problems facing urban Australia in the 1990s.
Author : Clive A. Forster
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Australian Cities: Continuity and Change examines the changing nature of Australia's major cities from a geographical perspective. It explains how patterns of housing, population, employment, transport, and service provision developed and continue to evolve in response to economic, social, and technological change. It discusses issues of equity, ecological sustainability, and economic efficiency and considers the choices facing policy makers.
Author : Thomas L. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 113690283X
This fourth volume of some of the best, award-winning writing from around the world’s planning schools promotes further discussion and thought. The international authors address a broad spectrum of planning issues including safety in urban spaces, rebuilding post-Katrina and planning and governance in urban Zimbabwe.
Author : Ruth Fincher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137069600
Planning theory and practice has become more conscious in recent times of the need to cater for a diverse range of needs and preferences. But there has been less clarity about what goals and objectives should inform planning for such diversity. In this important new book Ruth Fincher and Kurt Iveson identify three distinct working principles of planning for diversity: redistribution, recognition and encounter. Each principle is the subject of a pair of chapters. The first explaining the principle and the second showcasing and comparing efforts to shape cities according to it, drawing on relevant examples from around the world. Planning for Diversity is the ideal introduction to the issues that surround diversity and planning and provides a stimulating new line of advance for reducing inequality and working towards 'just diversity' in cities. Ruth Fincher is Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Kurt Iveson is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Author : Peter W Newton
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0643099735
Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century. Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. With contributions from 92 researchers - all leaders in their respective fields - this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition.
Author : Siew-An Khoo
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780868405025
Transformation of Australia's population, 1970-2030.
Author : Susan Magarey
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9781862544772
Egg-heads in an ivory tower? Dreary boffins carrying out useless research at the tax-payer's expense? Computer-nerds? Do such figures make you think of people working in humanities and social sciences in universities? This book shows just how wrong such representations are!
Author : Clementine Cottineau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 111998680X
Cities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and in return, unequal access to services, environmental quality and favorable health conditions in different neighborhoods and cities fuel the reproduction of interpersonal inequalities. This book examines how inequalities are produced and reproduced both within and between cities. In particular, we review land rent and social segregation theories from diverse disciplinary references and through examples taken from around the world. The attraction of urban centralities, which is further reinforced by the growing financialization of property and urban capital, is also analyzed through the lens of its influence on rent-seeking mechanisms and the ever increasing pressure of population migration.
Author : Jago Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317307836
The past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable cities to address the challenges of moving beyond oil? How might a shift away from petroleum provide opportunities to improve or remake cities for the economic, social and environmental imperatives of twenty-first-century sustainability? Such questions are the focus of contributors to this book with perspectives ranging across the planning challenge: overarching petroleum futures, governance, transition and climate change questions, the role of various urban transport nodes and household responses, ways of measuring oil vulnerability, and the effects on telecommunications, ports and other urban infrastructure. This comprehensive volume – with contributions from and focusing on cities in Australia, the UK, the US, France, Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea – provides key insights to enable cities to plan for the age beyond petroleum.
Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857243489
Presents contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions, not just in Europe and the United States but also metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. This title examines the patterns of suburban development in metropolitan regions around the globe.