Advance Australia... Where? - Hugh MacKay

What will the next generation of children be like? Why have we lost interest in politics? Why are our houses getting bigger while our households are shrinking? How serious is the surge of interest in ‘values’ and ‘spirituality’? Is multiculturalism dead? Has our egalitarian ideal collapsed under the weight of a more competitive, more divided society? Fifteen years ago, Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia that analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening to our society. Now, in Advance Australia … Where? he takes another long, hard look at us. While we enjoy unprecedented levels of prosperity and the promise of more to come, we are still battling an epidemic of depression, taking on record levels of debt, and yearning for a deeper sense of meaning in our lives. While many Australians complain about feeling powerless and isolated, Mackay sees some encouraging signs that we are learning how to absorb the impact of the revolutionary changes that have reshaped us.

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Australia 2050 - Big Australia? - Brian Haratsis

This book argues that too much spin and not enough facts have been filtered to the Australian public, preventing them from influencing or even questioning the bureaucratic decisions made on their behalf. This, coupled with a lack of national leadership which is bereft of clear infrastructure and planning priorities, is derailing Australia’s future.

The author - Brian Haratsis, examines current and past thinking on the building of nations, regions and cities, in order to establish a clearer picture of the challenges and opportunities Australia will face in the next 40 years.

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Affluence, Mobility & Second Home Ownership - Chris Paris

Chris Paris uses this text to address the reasons behind why second homes are becoming more popular, both within the usual domicile of the individuals, and in international locations. The socioeconomic factors and historical contexts of homes in cultures across the world are fundamental to explaining the choices in transnational home ownership, and Paris' case studies and comparisons between additional homes in Europe, Australia, America and Asia expand upon the motivation for people to own a second home.

"Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership" draws together debates on gentrification, globalisation, consumerism, environmental factors and investment to provide a balanced look at the pros, and cons, of second home ownership, and what implications it has for the future. An ideal text for students studying geography, urbanism and planning, this book is also of interest to individuals interested in the changing ways in which we make choices on our places of residence.

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Beyond Takings and Givings - Rick Pruetz

The United States loses over four thousand acres of farmland and natural areas to development every day. Zoning is not a permanent solution. And few communities are able to use tax dollars for meaningful open space preservation.
However, a growing number of communities are saving environmental areas, agricultural land and historic landmarks using a market-based preservation technique called transfer of development rights, or TDR. With TDR, the owners of land that these communities want to save, called sending areas, are compensated for voluntarily restricting their development potential. The owners of land that these communities want to grow, called receiving areas, are allowed additional development potential, but only when they participate in the preservation of the sending areas. In addition to benefits for landowners and developers, TDR helps communities achieve their preservation goals using little or no tax revenue.

At 500 pages, Beyond Takings and Givings is the most comprehensive publication to date on TDR. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating a TDR program, contains profiles of 134 TDR programs in 32 states and addresses the most commonly asked questions on this topic: What is TDR? How did TDR evolve? What can TDR accomplish? Where is TDR used? Where has TDR worked best? What are TDR’s success factors? What are TDRs advantages and disadvantages? How does TDR compare with other implementation tools? Why doesn’t everyone use TDR? And, for communities where adoption of a traditional TDR program seems doubtful, Beyond Takings and Givings explains density transfer charges, a tool that reduces the seemingly complex TDR mechanism to a single requirement.

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BOOMTOWN 2050 Scenarios For a Rapidly Growing City - Richard Weller

With cutting-edge development scenarios that can be applied to any city experiencing rapid change, Boomtown 2050 is essential reading for all urban design professionals. The Western Australian capital, Perth, is the world's most isolated city, in one of the world's most precious biological regions. Already sprawled further than most major international cities, Perth is predicted to grow from 1.5 million people to 4.2 million by 2056. To meet this increase the entire city and its infrastructure needs to double in the nest four decades. This will have huge consequences for the culture and ecology of the city: Perth's long term survival is at stake.

The result of a two year research project headed by award-winning landscape architect Richard Weller, Boomtown 2050 is designed to help the community become informed and involved in the debate about how Perth should grow. To date low density suburbia has served us well, but is it the right form of urbanism for the 21st century? This book goes well beyond the sprawl versus anti-sprawl debates and shows various ways the whole city could be creatively re-organised to suit the challenges of the 21st century.

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Creative Community Planning - Dr Wendy Sarkissian, Dianna Hurford and Christine Wenman

Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in narrative, embodied and technological methods, exploring the frontiers of community engagement and empowerment practice within a fresh sustainability framework. Academics, professionals and community members increasingly acknowledge that multiple perspectives enrich planning outcomes. Furthermore, its acknowledged that the engagement process itself can create imaginative forums and
spaces that can nurture understanding and empathy for ourselves and our environments. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors discuss the work of planning theorists, researchers and practitioners engaging a diversity of people living in diverse and ever changing communities. The authors discuss how engagement practices and enhanced using practices such as visioning and participatory research processes, poetry, theatre, film, websites, and exercises to access the creative ideas of all ages, including children and young people.

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Expectations of a Better World - Planning Australian Communities - Bruce Wright

FLORENCE TAYLOR'S HATS Designing, Building and Editing Sydney - Robert Freestone & Bronwyn Hanna

In her day, Australia's first ‘lady architect' as widely known for her spectacular hats. They were as varied as the colourful roles she played at the forefront of Australian building, journalism and urban design. With her outspoken feminism, working class background and right wing politics, her flair for business and unorthodox private life, Florence Taylor (1879 - 1969) is a towering yet contradictory personality:

• Editor and publisher of Building and other influential journals
• Co-founder of the Town Planning Association and many other organisations
• Friend then foe to Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin
• The first woman to fly a glider in Australia.

Florence had a way of reinventing her past. But sifting through fact and fiction, the authors present the absorbing true life of a dominant woman, once dubbed "the Great Lady of Sydney Town".

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GREEN URBANISM DOWN UNDER - Learning From Sustainable Communities in Australia- Peter Beatley with Peter Newman

In this practical book, Timothy Beatley and Peter Newman set out to answer a simple question: what can Americans learn from Australians about 'greening' city life? Green Urbanism Down Under reports on the current state of 'sustainability practice' in Australia and the many lessons that the USA can learn from the best Australian programs and initiatives.

Australia is similar to the United States in many ways, especially in its 'energy footprint.' For example, Australia's per capita greenhouse gas emissions are second only to those of the United States. A similar percentage of its residents live in cities (85 percent in Australia vs. 80 percent in the United States). And it suffers from parallel problems of air and water pollution, a national dependence on automobiles, and high fossil fuel consumption. Still, after traveling throughout Australia, the authors find that there are myriad creative responses to these problems - and that they offer instructive examples for the United States.

Green Urbanism Down Under is a very readable collection of solutions. Although many of these innovative solutions are little-known outside Australia, they all present practical possibilities for U.S. cities. Beatley and Newman describe 'green transport' projects, 'city farms', renewable energy plans, green living programs, and much more. They consider a host of public policy initiatives and scrutinise regional and state planning efforts for answers. In closing, they share their impressions about how Australian results might be applied to U.S. problems.

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KITCHEN TABLE SUSTAINABILITY - Dr Wendy Sarkissian, with Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda & Cathy Wilkinson

Now is your opportunity to transform your community engagement with sustainability! Two years in the making, and drawing on stories and case studies from around the world, this book is designed to help guide and support you through the challenges of engaging with sustainability so that you can make a difference for your community, your organisation amd the Earth.

Drawing on a rich tapestry of personal stories, professional & academic knowledge and a heartfelt care for communities and the Earth, this book encourages communities to engage with conversations about sustainability at the ‘kitchen table' where anyone can contribute and everyone has a place. Kitchen Table Sustainability introduces a powerful new EATING approach to community engagement, encompassing Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance. It distills decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement & sustainability practice into a practical guidebook full of inspiring examples and case studies. For more information, visit: www.kitchentablesustainability.com

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Owners Corporations in Victoria. A Manual for Owners, Occupiers & Managers - Rebecca Leshinsky & Simon Libbis

development to one where high-rise mixed-use living and working is encouraged by State, regional and local planning policy. The city now supports one of the tallest buildings in the world, the Eureka Tower in Southbank. As Victoria's population grows, more people want and need to work and live in high rise and medium density buildings.

With this shift, there has been a need for new laws to accommodate a different way of life. The new Owners Corporation Act applies to city and regional areas across
Victoria for developments with an owners corporation model.

The Body Corporate Book was published nearly a decade ago and is now out of date. The new legal regime covering bodies corporate (now called Owners Corporation) may be based on the old model but is also quite distinct. Owners Corporation in Victoria sets out in plain language how the new system works and what are the rights and responsibilities for members, occupiers and those who manage residential, office, warehouse and mixed use buildings with an owners corporation in Victoria.

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Planning Australia
An overview of Urban and Regional Planning

This book is the first complete Australian planning text to be written in over 30 years. It incorporates both theory and current practice, providing an overview of the discipline. It provides a comprehensive view of the major issues and principal activities which occupy planning practitioners today. Further, and most importantly, the conceptual framework of the text is underpinned by the tenets of sustainability and social equity, reflecting the breadth of the authors' planning expertise, theoretical positions and practice experience.

The book defines and contextualizes planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The history of the discipline, its relationship to broader governance structures and its legislative framework are canvassed. Specific issues central to planning practice today are explored and discussed. Richly illustrated with current case study examples, Planning Australia will have broad appeal for those with an interest in planning - students, community groups, practitioners and the concerned citizen.

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POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design - Janis Birkeland

Genuine sustainability will require more than ‘ecological restoration'. ‘Zero carbon' and ‘zero waste', at best, leave things as they are - we need to go beyond zero to development that delivers positive impacts. Achieving truly massive positive gains calls for a new approach to the planning, design and management of our built environment. Design and planning guru Janis Birkeland (author of the highly successful and widely adopted publication ‘Design for Sustainability') presents the innovative new paradigm of ‘Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money.

This title provides fundamental critique of current best practice in planning, design and development of infrastructure. It presents the new paradigm of ‘Positive Development' - development that enhances and restores the environment without sacrificing resources or money and shows how we can retrofit the built environment to this standard. It also presents professionals with a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode-Systems Mapping and Re-design Thinking, to help reverse the ecological and social impacts of past development.

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Renewable City - Peter Droege

Despite the mounting cost of climate change and the peaking of oil, natural gas and uranium supplies well within this generation, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are managed, administered and planned as if such crises did not exist. Indeed, the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by an evolving renewable-energy based infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of planning and decision-making.

Professor Peter Droege from the University of Newcastle, has written a comprehensive guide to an unprecedented urban transition, squarely focused on action. Recently launched by PIA (Vic) this book supports design, planning and management decisions and serves practitioners, academics and political leaders in communities and cities as a useful reference.

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RESHAPING PLANNING WITH CULTURE - Dr Greg Young

Reshaping Planning with Culture has been recognised internationally as an important new addition to the planning literature. The book describes and illustrates a new, original and practical system to better integrate culture in urban and regional planning, in design and in strategic planning for protected areas. Clear theories of culture and planning are outlined in the book and are followed by a user-friendly culture-based Planning System suitable for use by governments, planners and consultants alike. The book shows how the full creative weight of culture can be brought to bear in planning and is illustrated with numerous international examples and two major Australian case studies. The book also contains diagrams and tables to assist planners, academics and consultants in their work.

The book is published by the leading UK publisher Ashgate in its prestigious ‘Urban and Regional Planning' series and has been hailed as an international planning breakthrough with an Australian voice.

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Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil & Climate Change - Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley & Heather Boyer

Half of the world's inhabitants now live in cities. In the next twenty years, the number of urban dwellers will swell to an estimated five billion people. With their inefficient transportation systems and poorly designed buildings, many cities consume enormous quantities of fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases. Furthermore our planet is rapidly running out of the carbon-based fuels that have powered urban growth for centuries and we seem to be unable to curb our greenhouse gas emissions. Are the world's cities headed for inevitable collapse?

The authors of this spirited book don't believe that oblivion is necessarily the destiny of urban areas. Instead, they believe that intelligent planning and visionary leadership can help cities meet the impending crises, and look to existing initiatives in cities around the world. Rather than responding with fear (as a legion of dooms day prognosticators have done), they choose hope. Importantly this is not a book filled with "blue sky" theory. Rather, it is packed with practical ideas, some of which are already working in cities today. It frankly admits that our cities have problems that will worsen if they are not addressed, but it suggests that these problems are solvable. And the time to begin solving them is now. For more information about the book visit: www.resilientcitiesbook.org For information on Resilient Cities visit: www.resilientcities.org

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Speak Out - Dr Wendy Sarkissian and Wiwik Bunjamin-Mau

The SpeakOut process was co-designed with Melbourne community planner, Andrea Cook, in 1990. This book about the SpeakOut helps all of us who are looking for new ways to conduct community engagement processes. Often community planners, as well as community development workers, activists and leaders, face challenges when they try to find inclusive ways of engaging a community in a planning or revitalization process or project. This can be a daunting undertaking.
Many guidebooks provide only minimal guidance on how to do this inclusive work. Now help is at hand. This new book, the product of nearly two decades of successful practice by community planning specialists, helps both planning veterans and
people with little or no experience to conduct a wide variety of community engagement events with absolute confidence.

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The BEDP Environment Design Guide

The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender and Violence Prevention Practical Planning Tools - Carolyn Whitzman

It is the first book to gather together research and examples, from a gendered perspective, of local, regional and international interventions that work to prevent crime, violence and insecurity. Case studies of successful initiatives from every continent, in settings that vary from large cities to rural areas, are analysed to provide cross-cultural lessons of what works and what doesn't. The book presents essential practical advice to professionals such as: how to obtain diagnostic information on incidence and impacts of violence; how to develop, maintain and evaluate policies and programmes that can effectively promote community safety; and how to create trust and effectiveness in partnerships.

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The House on the Hill - Dr Neil Barr

Why do some country football teams find it hard to survive? Why are Beaut Blokes weekends so popular? Why are some small country towns dying and others thriving? Will the corporate farm supersede the family farm? What is the ‘grass change’? Where does the city end and the country begin? What are the environmental concerns of farmers? Why are wind generators so controversial? How do we shape the countryside and its environment by what we choose in
the supermarket? These are just some of the questions that researcher Neil Barr is being
asked by rural communities in an effort to understand, explain and manage change in their communities.

This book is a result of the Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship award which allowed Dr Barr the breathing space to complete a manuscript based on his experiences as a rural social researcher.

On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the worlds needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them. What’s going on? What can we do? Neil Barr looks close up and he looks at the big picture. What affects real people on the land affects everybody.

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The Sixth Wave: How to Succeed in a Resource Limited World - Dr. James Bradfield Moody and Bianca Nogrady

Making predictions about the future is a dangerous game, particularly when that future has never looked more uncertain. Natural resources are dwindling and we are wasting the resources we do have at an unparalleled rate. Climate change threatens our way of life and digital technology is advancing at such a rate as to leave many of us baffled. But far from being all "doom and gloom", these signs point to the emergence of an exciting new wave of innovation.

Throughout modern history, the tide of innovation and progress has ebbed and flowed but a clear pattern exists - five waves of innovation, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, have each transformed society, economies and industry. The fifth wave was dominated by information and communications technology but its peak is beginning to fade and a new, brighter star is emerging.

The sixth wave of innovation will be about resources - natural resources, human resources and information. With the challenge of a planet running out of essential supplies and a population staring down the barrel of Malthus' dire predictions, the sixth wave will see humanity finally make the break away from resource-dependence. Economic growth will no longer be tied to resource consumption or waste production (such as carbon) and industry will no longer think in terms of products but in terms of services. Everything, from the smallest leaf and light switch to the largest cities and online communities, will have a value that can be measured, so nothing is ever wasted. Driving this will be a spectacular boom in technologies ranging from clean technology to digital mapping to online collaboration. Traditional physical and geographical boundaries will mean nothing in a world where everything and everyone is online.

This book is for anyone who is interested in understanding how all of the massive changes in the world fit together. In particular it is for those of us who wish to understand and take advantage of the changes that are occurring around us.

THE SIXTH WAVE is a business book, a motivational book, a popular science title, a bold prediction and a roadmap for the future all in one.

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Transitions - Pathways Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Australia - Dr Peter W. Newton

Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century.

Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia's cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns.

With contributions from 92 researchers - all leaders in their respective fields - this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition. For more Information, visit: CSIRO Publishing

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Transport for Suburbia - Dr Paul Mees

Winner of the ‘Scholarship, Research and Teaching’ category in PIA Victoria’s 2010 Awards for Planning Excellence, Transport for Suburbia cogently and wittily argues that the dominant ‘compact city’ mindset amongst planners underplays the importance of planning for public transport networks in sustainable city planning, not least in Melbourne. Drawing on a multitude of local and overseas case studies, Paul Mees systematically builds his argument, admonishing politicians, traffic engineers and land use planners alike for their failure of vision, political will and plain common sense.

Mees, in effect, gives a twist to the key message of Planning 101: land use and public transport planning are inseparable. The book’s final sentence reads: “Before we can provide public transport solutions for suburbia, we must stop telling ourselves that the task is impossible.” Let us hope this message gets through to the powers that be.

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Urban Nation Australia's Planning Heritage - Robert Freestone

Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This
ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. It identifies and documents hundreds of places - parks, public spaces, redeveloped precincts, neighbourhoods, suburbs up to whole towns - that
contribute to the distinctive character of urban and suburban Australia. It sets these significant planned landscapes within the broader context of both international design trends and Australian efforts at nation and city building.

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Weighing Up Australian Values - Professor Brian Howe, AO

The book Weighing Up Australian Values; Balancing Transitions and Risks to Work and Family in Modern Australia a social policy response to the period of ongoing social and economic change in Australia over the last 30 years driven in part by the revolution in information and communications technology.

The transformation in the structure of the Australian economy from a concentration on domestic markets to a greater emphasis on exporting goods and services has resulted in changes in the workplace that influence the outlook most Australians now have for their working lives.

A more open economy carries with it a greater sense of risk and the demand for increased competitiveness, greater efficiency, higher productivity, more emphasis on brainpower than muscle power and an increased preference for workers able to meet these demands. These changes in the economy alone will place increased pressure on governments to do more to strengthen systems of social protection.

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The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin - edited by Dustin Griffin of New York University, Griffin's grand nephew

Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) was a distinguished planner, modernist architect and landscape architect. His work attracted world wide attention in 1912 when he won the international competition to design Canberra. Griffin was also a prolific lecturer and writer.

Now, for the first time his complete writings are collected in a single volume. This beautiful large format hardback runs to over 500 pages, on highest grade gloss paper throughout - it is a work of design in its own right. The book features reproductions of Griffin's plans and designs throughout, alongside photographs of many of his key works. Over a quarter of the book is occupied with Griffin's work in Australia, most notably discussing the theory and formation of his plans for Canberra.

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With Conscious Purpose: A History of Town Planning in South Australia - Second edition

With Conscious Purpose examines trend set in early Adelaide in the rise of suburbia, the spread of agricultural frontiers and the new 20th century planning philosophies and model developments. The rapid post World War 2 urban expansions and new cities initiatives are analysed as are the legislative policies from the 1960s onwards. This second edition brings the reader up to date with the post scripts of new research and insights and carries the story forward to the present day.

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