Airports have been relatively neglected in scholarly planning literature despite their historic role shaping metropolitan form. Their transformation into major mixed-use urban nodes anchoring subregional realms of aviation-oriented development has underscored significance as agents and products globalization. Reviewing the trends issues arising, several normative models airport spaces are identified discussed relation to sustainable objectives. The contestation expansion that made for epic...

Airports are no longer places where planes just take off and land but have evolved into major business enterprises with spatial impacts functional implications that extend deep metropolitan areas. They vital hubs in the global space of flows. Airport-led urban development, notwithstanding its employment income generating capabilities potentials, comes costs risks: economic, environmental, cultural. A host planning issues raised. Traditional NIMBY reactions against airport expansion evolving...

Abstract This paper examines the significance and contribution of Australian 'creative' industry activities in light recent debates on emergence 'cultural economy cities'. First, census employment data business location counts are used to illustrate patterns metropolitan primacy concentration cultural industries both across states Sydney. Second, specificities locations production, links between wider urban-regional change explored more detail. A set observations is demonstrate how notion...

Urban theorists and observers have pointed towards a persistent if elusive character of incompleteness within cities. This paper responds to these ideas both theoretically visually. Building on definition as encompassing perceptual absence or missing, the addresses gap in theoretical understanding how can be critically understood depicted temporal urban process. The focus goes beyond singular state built quality continuums re-construction, fragmentation re-imagination. These notions inform...

Of various approaches to teaching planning in practice, work-based or integrated learning retains vital relevance many programs. There are strong rationales pedagogic, professional development, employment, and personal terms. But what of student experiences work experience? How do planners approach, experience, reflect on workplace engagements? This article explores these experiential dimensions through a survey cohort Australian students involved yearlong paid placement as part an...

Many suburban areas in Australian cities built between the 1930s and 1960s are facing major challenges from socio-demographic change, ageing housing, long-term disinvestment entrenched pockets of social disadvantage. Yet despite emerging relative disadvantages, these middle ring or ‘third city’ suburbs experiencing locally generated piecemeal market-led reinvestment renewal. This paper explores household housing investment characteristics trends older parts Sydney’s western drawing on...

A distinctive feature of suburban development in Melbourne, Australia, from the late 1920s was fully serviced cul-de-sac subdivision which houses, gardens, streetscape, and infrastructure were conceived as a planned entity. The typology can be linked to Californian bungalow court concept, transmitted via professional journals, trade magazines, study tours. While standard American model evolved toward denser clusters urban apartment buildings, Melbourne paradigm remained resolutely suburban....

Much recent literature in urban studies, geography, and planning portrays an inexorable evolution toward polycentricity as a new “postmodern” metropolitan form. However, detailed comparable empirical investigations, at once both comprehensive disaggregated, are more elusive. A study by Gordon Richardson (1996) of employment trends Los Angeles—the archetypal polycentric metropolis—produced the surprising conclusion that process generalized dispersion rather than clustering major suburban...

Abstract A strand of recent American planning literature has been the exploration “edge city” style suburbanization. Similar outer city landscapes with attendant problems have identified in foreign settings, but a culturally sensitive approach to relevant comparisons pattern, process and policy is needed. Focusing on Sydney experience, this paper provides an Australian perspective. Its discussion economic, demographic, historical, institutional, factors centrally concerned explaining more...

Assessing student perceptions and opinions of their university education is now standard in quality assurance processes for learning teaching. In Australia, the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) has been institutionalised as a national survey graduand opinion used key indicator tertiary teaching quality. A little‐used variant called Work (WEQ) provides an adaptation to specific case work‐based learning. Work‐based vital component many professional degrees. It staple urban planning yet...

By the end of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic had exceeded 83 million cases worldwide. Given shared origins planning and public health, new living social conditions have prompted an interest in how urban could respond to pandemic's associated implications. In a national online survey Plan My Australia was conducted among experts (n = 161), part, identify challenges facing design due pandemic. The findings reported here revealed that many identified better for future pandemics require some...

Neo-liberalism has been a dominant economic and political paradigm for several decades, legitimising the privatisation, deregulation marketisation of many public services. The leasing Australia's capital city airports by Commonwealth Government to private operators exemplifies this trend. Since late 1990s, airport companies have moved commodify uncommitted land assets diverse commercial developments. These trends raise important planning issues through impacts on property markets,...