Planning for a Continent of Cities: Long-range scenarios for Australian urbanisation - Couverture souple

Bolleter, Julian; Freestone, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1760803065 ISBN 13 : 9781760803063

Editeur : UWA Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Some 50 years after Ideas for Australian Cities appeared we now have another milestone publication that envisions future pathways to the grand challenge of planning more sustainable and resilient cities - the nation's greatest asset. Planning for a Continent of Cities assembles a unique and thought-provoking set of continental scale settlement scenarios that address the twin challenges of long-term spatial planning and urban governance.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR PETER W. NEWTON, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Centre for Urban Transitions

It is a time of interlocking planetary crises - ecological, social and economic - Bolleter and Freestone ask what this means for one of the world's most urbanised continents, Australia. In an important contrast to many recent urban books, they consult social opinion as well as the best scientific evidence to draw up an outline for a workable and sustainable future for Australia. It departs from the current 'Business Council' program of stacking the metropolitan cities with new population and (always lagging) investment. Mindful of historical policy antecedents, Planning for a Continent of Cities conceives a National Urban Policy that plans for a network of regional cities that can take us through the coming storms of change.

PROFESSOR BRENDAN GLEESON, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne.

• An in-depth look at long-range scenarios for Australian urbanisation perfect for readers interested in the intersection between long term population growth and urban planning.
• Foreword by Emeritus Professor Barbara Norman (University of Canberra and Honorary Professor ANU)

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julian Bolleter is the Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia, the Program Director of AUDRC’s Master of Urban Design course, and an author and public figure. Julian leads an ambitious climate adaptation project, ‘Future climate, future home: adaptive urban design strategies for WA’ with AUDRC partner organisations Development WA, the Department of Communities, the Western Australian Planning Commission, and multiple Local Governments. He has received a stream of awards for his research, including the UWA School of Design's Mid-Career Research Award,’ in 2023.
 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UWA Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1760803065
• ISBN 13: 9781760803063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible