Urban Australia confronts numerous challenges in the 21st century: climate change, housing, transport, greenspace, social inequality, and governance, among them. While state and local governments wrestle with these issues, they are continent wide and require national leadership, direction and participation. As a highly urbanised country without a national approach to urban policy, Australia is an outlier.
Contributors to this book argue that this policy gap needs to be addressed. They ask: How have productive, sustainable and liveable cities so far been enhanced? Where have aspirations fallen short or produced negative outcomes? And what approaches are emerging to challenge existing and devise new urban policy settings?
In the face of ongoing crises and escalating change, the need for policy to quickly transform urban Australia is daunting. Problems, wicked in their complexity, require innovative, ethical solutions. This book offers new ideas that challenge policy orthodoxy.
Edited by:
Robert Freestone,
Bill Randolph,
Wendy Steele
Imprint: Anu Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 708g
ISBN: 9781760466299
ISBN 10: 1760466298
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 19 March 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of figures List of tables Abbreviations Acknowledgement of Country Acknowledgements Contributors Part 1: Introductory Whither Australian urban policy? – Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph, and Wendy Steele Uneasy bedfellows: Integrating urban research and policymaking in Australia – Hayley Henderson and Helen Sullivan National policy for an urban nation: Establishing sustained Commonwealth attention to Australia's cities, 2008–2021 – Jago Dodson Part 2: Sustainability, the environment, and conservation Climate change adaptation and resilience as a metapolicy framework – Elnaz Torabi and Stephen Dovers The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Australia’s de facto national urban policy? – Alexei Trundle and Brendan Gleeson Potable water: Pay more, use less – Peter Spearritt Saving heritage policy: The past and future of conservation in the Australian city – James Lesh Part 3: Population, settlement, and urban form Changing Australia’s settlement geography: The repopulation of regional cities and towns – Amanda Davies Prospects and policies for new urban settlements in Australia – Victoria Kolankiewicz, Elizabeth Taylor, and David Nichols In absentia: Urban renewal policy in the Australian city – Simon Pinnegar Addressing the unanticipated consequences of compact city policies – Hazel Easthope and Sophie-May Kerr In GOD we trust: Tracking density, greenspace, and wellbeing in Australian cities – Julian Bolleter, Nicole Edwards, and Paula Hooper Part 4: Productivity and infrastructure Mobilising smart city infrastructure in the Australian context – Chris Pettit and Alessandra Buxton Funding urban infrastructure: What role for the Commonwealth Government? – Marcus Spiller Part 5: Justice and wellbeing Voice, treaty, truth: Planning for coexistence in Australia’s cities and towns – Ed Wensing and Matthew Kelly Towards a social progress index for urban liveability, productivity, and sustainability – Megan Weier and Kristy Muir Housing, income, and precarity: The Australian suburban settlement in an age of uncertainty – Laurence Troy Towards a national housing policy for the 2020s – Hal Pawson and Vivienne Milligan Planning, housing, and affordability: Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic – Nicole Gurran and Pranita Shrestha Part 6: Transitional needs and challenges Accelerating low-carbon urban transitions in Australia – Niki Frantzeskaki, Peter Newton, and Fatemeh Shahani Australian urban transport: Generating solidarity in a landscape of crisis and change – Crystal Legacy and Rebecca Clements Inequality, sustainability, and public policy: Historical and spatial perspectives – Frank Stilwell Part 7: Conclusion Australian urban policy futures – Wendy Steele, Robert Freestone, and Bill Randolph Index
