Current Australian metropolitan plans all contain sustainability ambitions. This paper discusses the role for urban planning in managing the energy demands of living in Australian cities.

Reviewing a broad range of trans-disciplinary literature addressing child-friendliness in contemporary Australian cities, this paper draws particular attention to the fact that even some of the most recognised texts on children and young people in Australia make few references in their analysis to the issue of place and neighbourhood.

The following study examines the patterns and dynamics of movement in a selection of master planned estates in Australia.

Exploring a rationale for limiting the term ‘sustainability’ to the project of sustaining the planetary ecology, this paper argues that ‘sustainability’ has been stripped of meaning by overuse and misuse in the interests of sustaining nothing but the status quo.

This paper examines the links between household social status and transport disadvantage through a review of concepts for the analysis of transport disadvantage in urban research and policy making.