https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16445 2026-06-15T06:42:16Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16463 Recovery of the soul: sustainable rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans Blakely, Edward J. Although the notion of sustainable development is usually associated with the design and building of new settlements, this chapter illustrates how this notion can also be used to undergird the recovery strategies to rebuild a city struck by a natural disaster. The chapter shows how a sustainable development approach in post-Katrina New Orleans has helped frame post-disaster recovery efforts by applying the following five sustainability concepts: community participation in deciding best strategies for recovery to continue the healing; public safety and security for all neighbourhoods; 100-plus-year time-horizon infrastructure planning; a diverse economy; and sustainable settlement pattern. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16465 Planning for sustainable development: 'wicked problems' at Sydney's Malabar Headland Shrestha, Krishna K.; Dee, John This chapter explores a set of wicked problems in the Malabar Headland in Sydney, Australia. By employing a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, it was found that wicked problems were produced, reproduced and perpetuated in the Malabar Headland due mainly to two principal reasons: a) operational – relating to the complex and conflicting valuesets among stakeholders and multiple uses; and b) structural – relating to the institutional and interest group politics inherent within the layered federal system of government in Australia. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16467 Front Matter 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16460 Crafting economic drivers for local areas in globalising regional economy: Sydney as a case study Blakely, Edward J.; Bista, Santosh; Lubulwa, Godfrey Using tools of small area analysis of the internal spatial economies of the Sydney metropolitan region, this chapter looks at how the region could reach new strategic goals with a more equitable metropolitan economic pattern. The analytical template for this approach is a new form of metropolitan suburban district analysis of a greater metropolitan system. This research uses city/suburban data to explore patterns of spatial drivers in the metropolitan system. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16462 Metrics of environmental sustainability, social equity and economic efficiency for employment location & commuting Doust, Ken; Black, John The scope of this chapter is employment location and commuting for the journey-to-work travel from origins in the outer western suburbs of Sydney to all other destinations, and journey to home from major employment centres such as Parramatta. The equity aspect of urban development, as measured by accessibility to land uses, has been a longstanding research theme of one of the authors (Black, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1992; Black and Conroy, 1977). However, in this chapter we have formulated a model of accessibility and sustainability that is introduced for the first time for comment and critique. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16461 Collaborative planning & sustainability: exploring ecosystems as common-pool resources in the Lockyer Catchment Shrestha, Krishna K.; Sarker, Ashutosh This chapter examines the current planning and management of natural resources in the Lockyer Catchment in Queensland, Australia, and explores potentials for planning and management informed by the concept of ‘commons’ or ‘common-pool resources’ (CPR), which emphasise bottom-up, collaborative planning and management by community groups. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16464 Planning a sustainable downtown in the global era: a case study of San Franciso Hu, Richard Sustainability has been a buzzword of urban planning for the past two decades. This is particularly true in the discourse of planning effort specifically focused on the downtown area. In the downtown discourse, the concept of sustainability is more comprehensive than it is generally understood as of ecological and environmental implications only. The essence of planning a sustainable downtown is how to combine the downtown’s economic competitiveness with its social and environmental scenarios and make them mutually supportive. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16466 Introduction: towards sustainable regions Blakely, Edward J.; Gilmour, Tony This book highlights how the notion of sustainability has permeated all the research and teaching activities of the Planning Research Centre and the Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Sydney. In line with the trend in major international planning faculties in the United States, Australia and Europe, Sydney University is integrating sustainability as a core approach across specialisations. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16455 Sustainable planning for poor communities: urban design studios as a catalyst for development in Colombia Pizarro, Rafael E. This chapter addresses the potential role of sustainable urban design studios as catalysts for development in slum communities of the developing world. Understanding urbanisation processes in the developing world is important to our sustainability challenge because most of the world’s population will live in these places. oreover, world urbanisation patterns are both a key problem as well as a primary resource. Urban proximity makes sustainability with density possible, however urbanisation is both energy intensive and destructive to natural resources. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16458 The importance of organisational structure in building a sustainable non-profit housing sector Gilmour, Tony This chapter reviews the limited research on organisational typologies in countries with similar liberal welfare regimes, focusing on examples from England and Australia. It provides an understanding of the emerging types of non-profit housing organisations using the management theories of new institutionalism, networks, and global convergence. Finally, the chapter proposes a new typology for non-profit housing organisations and suggests how this might assist policy makers create a sustainable non-profit housing sector. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16456 Public health and the sustainability of cities: Sydney airport's noise pollution and community wellbeing Black, Deborah; Black, John The development of international airports is a driving force behind globalisation. But growth in air traffic is also a threat to sustainable community health in the vicinity of airports. Airports are an increasingly important dimension to the economic sustainability of cities but the health and wellbeing of its citizens must also be considered in the process of development assessment and impact mitigation. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16454 Sustainable transport planning: assessing transit oriented development in north-west Sydney Bista, Santosh The main aim of this chapter is to design a generic planning and assessment framework in economic perspectives to gauge the sustainability of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) around bus corridors in North West sector of Sydney – a case study of Sunnyholt Road in the city of Blacktown. It further elaborates the potential for increased development in the vicinity of Sunnyholt Road that could be associated with the Parramatta-Rouse Hill-Blacktown Transit Way (TWay) which is currently under construction. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/16457 Planning for sustainable change: a review of Australian local planning schemes Gurran, Nicole; Phibbs, Peter Sustainable development, defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’, has become a global policy objective with particular resonance for planners (WCED, 1987: p. 43). Many international, national, state and regional policy frameworks emphasise the need to improve the environmental performance of cities and regions and to conserve and renew biodiversity. The increasing prospect of global climatic volatility – hotter temperatures, sea level rise, intense storm events, flooding and bushfires, have added a new urgency for planning and design regulations that build community resilience to withstand impacts of climate change (Hennessy et al., 2007). 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z