The ageing of the Australian population has become a major focus for policy makers, and ‘ageing-in-place’ and ‘positive and healthy ageing’ have become central tenets in emerging policy.

This paper draws on interviews with local council staff and outlines a series of issues they consider important in shaping renewal in their middle-ring suburbs.

This paper discusses the role of community gardens in building healthy and sustainable communities. Focussing on a large high-rise public housing estate in Sydney’s inner west, the community garden scheme studied was part of an urban renewal program designed to ameliorate ongoing social problems on the estate.

These programs have undertaken a broad mix of renewal activity, from physical redevelopment , to community oriented initiatives. Yet while a number of evaluations of these programs have been undertaken, the development of evaluation methodology has lagged behind that of other countries. The emergence of public housing estate renewal programs in Australia in the last...

Vulnerability to crime is a common problem on large public housing estates, and therefore a key issue in the public housing estate regeneration programs that have emerged in all states of Australian in the last decade.