Australian Urban Policy : Prospects and Pathways

• Autore: Freestone Robert
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (512 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.1160994
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Australia; Urban policy - Australia; Cities and towns - Australia - Growth; Sustainable urban development - Australia; Politique urbaine - Australie; Villes - Australie - Croissance; Urbanisme durable - Australie
• Altri autori: RandolphBill SteeleWendy
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- List of figures -- Figure 3.1 COAG urban policy integration framework -- Figure 3.2 National urban policy goals, objectives, and principles -- Figure 5.1 Urban-relevant SDG targets -- Figure 5.2 Australian city SDG indicator benchmark data -- Figure 12.1 Public open space before being upgraded according to GOD -- Figure 12.2 After GOD: Urban densification correlated with upgraded parks -- Figure 12.3 Upgraded public open space -- Figure 13.1 Gartner Hype Cycle: Smart city technology and solutions, July 2021 -- Figure 13.2 Google Trends: Smart cities, 2004-2021 -- Figure 13.3 Publications on smart cities: Scopus search for the terms 'smart' and 'cities' -- Figure 13.4 Word cloud of all plans funded by the 2016 Smart City Plan -- Figure 15.1 The Uluru Statement from the Heart -- Figure 15.2 Model for parity and coexistence between Indigenous and settler-state land rights and interests, land use, and land tenure -- Figure 16.1 Social Progress Index framework -- Figure 16.2 Australian Social Progress Index 2018 scores and rankings -- Figure 17.1a Dominant housing tenure in Sydney by Statistical Area Level 2, 2001-2006 -- Figure 17.1b Dominant housing tenure in Sydney by Statistical Area Level 2, 2011-2016 -- Figure 17.2 Dominant tenure and dwelling type for households headed by 25-34-year-olds, 2016 -- List of tables -- Table 2.1 Urban policymaking and research links -- Table 4.1 Climate change adaptation: Relevant policy sectors and co‑benefits -- Table 4.2 A timeline of Australian national climate change adaptation policy, 1972-2023 -- Table 5.1 Targets within the 'urban' Sustainable Development Goal 11 -- Table 7.1 National Heritage Criteria, 2000 -- Table 8.1 Component parts of population growth for Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, 2015-2019. ; Table 8.2 Quarterly net internal migration for Australian capital cities, March 2020 to March 2021 -- Table 14.1 Estimated cost of supplying urban infrastructure for Melbourne's greenfield growth areas (A) -- Table 14.2 Principal funding sources by infrastructure type -- Table 14.3 Funding principles by infrastructure category -- Table 14.4 Selected events in the Commonwealth Government's involvement in infrastructure funding -- Table 15.1 Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights and interests in Australian planning legislation -- Table 16.1 Greater Sydney Region Plan: District boundaries in the west -- Table 16.2 Western Sydney district indexes of relative socioeconomic disadvantage -- Table 16.3 Key demographics of western Sydney communities -- Table 17.1 Tenure breakdown by dwelling type in three Australian capital cities, 2016 -- Table 17.2 Capital city change in tenure of 25-34-year-olds (household heads), 2006-2016 -- Table 17.3 Capital city change in share of tenure of 25-34-year-olds (household heads), 2006-2016 (per cent) -- Table 20.1 Overview of proposed pathways for low-carbon urban transitions in Australia -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgement of Country -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Part 1: Introductory -- 1. Whither Australian urban policy? -- 2. Uneasy bedfellows: Integrating urban research and policymaking in Australia -- 3. National policy for an urban nation: Establishing sustained Commonwealth attention to Australia's cities, 2008-2021 -- Part 2: Sustainability, the environment, and conservation -- 4. Climate change adaptation and resilience as a metapolicy framework -- 5. The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Australia's de facto national urban policy? -- 6. Potable water: Pay more, use less -- 7. Saving heritage policy: The past and future of conservation in the Australian city. ; Part 3: Population, settlement, and urban form -- 8. Changing Australia's settlement geography: The repopulation of regional cities and towns -- 9. Prospects and policies for new urban settlements in Australia -- 10. In absentia: Urban renewal policy in the Australian city -- 11. Addressing the unanticipated consequences of compact city policies -- 12. In GOD we trust: Tracking density, greenspace, and wellbeing in Australian cities -- Part 4: Productivity and infrastructure -- 13. Mobilising smart city infrastructure in the Australian context -- 14. Funding urban infrastructure: What role for the Commonwealth Government? -- Part 5: Justice and wellbeing -- 15. Voice, treaty, truth: Planning for coexistence in Australia's cities and towns -- 16. Towards a social progress index for urban liveability, productivity, and sustainability -- 17. Housing, income, and precarity: The Australian suburban settlement in an age of uncertainty -- 18. Towards a national housing policy for the 2020s -- 19. Planning, housing, and affordability: Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic -- Part 6: Transitional needs and challenges -- 20. Accelerating low-carbon urban transitions in Australia -- 21. Australian urban transport: Generating solidarity in a landscape of crisis and change -- 22. Inequality, sustainability, and public policy: Historical and spatial perspectives -- Part 7: Conclusion -- 23. Australian urban policy futures -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Urban Australia confronts numerous challenges in the 21st century: climate change, housing, transport, greenspace, social inequality, and governance, among them.
• Titolo autorizzato: Australian Urban Policy
• ISBN: 9781760466305; 1760466301
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910866588903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II