Considering the relationship between citizen participation and government intervention strategies in Australian cities in a post-GFC urban landscape, the paper examines how citizen participation is transformed and reconstituted through economic uncertain landscapes.

Using mobile communications as an example, the paper focuses on critically exploring the implications of our reliance on complex technological networks with reference to urban Australia.

Through a mixed-methods retrospective case study of an ‘extreme’ instance of community opposition to affordable housing development in the Western Sydney LGA of Parramatta, this paper looks at how and why community opposition to affordable housing escalated between 2009 and 2011, addressing this gap in knowledge.

This paper examines how government strategies to deliver social housing in difficult economic climates impacted upon democratic planning in Australian Cities.