Dialogues in Urban Planning: Towards Sustainable Regions: Recent submissions
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Crafting economic drivers for local areas in globalising regional economy: Sydney as a case study
Published 2008-01-01Using 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 ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Collaborative planning & sustainability: exploring ecosystems as common-pool resources in the Lockyer Catchment
Published 2008-01-01This 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 ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Planning for sustainable development: 'wicked problems' at Sydney's Malabar Headland
Published 2008-01-01This 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 ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Planning a sustainable downtown in the global era: a case study of San Franciso
Published 2008-01-01Sustainability 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 ...Open AccessBook chapter