Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping

Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping

Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping