Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.　Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

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• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping Connected Requires a Long-Term ViewGavin McCullagh BE (Civil) BA GDURP; Douglas Baker PhDPlanning For Food Justice within Urban AustraliaNicolette LarderPart IV: Climate change, disaster risk and environmental managementHow Planning Can Address the Challenge of Transitioning to Low Carbon Urban EconomiesIan LoweClimate Change: Local Governments Adapting To the Wicked Problem of Sea Level RiseAnne LeitchMainstreaming Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Capabilities for Australian Urban Planning Alan March and Stephen DoversThe Quality of Australian Regional NRM PlansMichael Lockwood and Andrew HarwoodIn Pursuit Of Effective Nature Conservation Planning and DeliveryMarc Hockings, Leslie Shirreffs, Robert SpeirsPart V: Engaging and Taking Planning ActionUrban Planning and Indigenous Peoples, AustraliaMelissa Nursey-Bray and Andrew Beer"The Right to Contribute": The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Community Engagement in the Australian Context Jenny Cameron and Deanna Grant-SmithCreating spaces for action: Lessons from front line planners in the Great Barrier ReefKaren Vella and John ForesterPart VI: Planning education and research Doing Planning and Being a Planner: Employment and Education Challenges for the Australian Planning Profession Deanna Grant-Smith and Severine MayereTracing the History of Australian Planning Research and Its Influence on PracticeJason ByrneConclusionNeil Sipe and Karen Vella

Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.　Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

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• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping Connected Requires a Long-Term ViewGavin McCullagh BE (Civil) BA GDURP; Douglas Baker PhDPlanning For Food Justice within Urban AustraliaNicolette LarderPart IV: Climate change, disaster risk and environmental managementHow Planning Can Address the Challenge of Transitioning to Low Carbon Urban EconomiesIan LoweClimate Change: Local Governments Adapting To the Wicked Problem of Sea Level RiseAnne LeitchMainstreaming Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Capabilities for Australian Urban Planning Alan March and Stephen DoversThe Quality of Australian Regional NRM PlansMichael Lockwood and Andrew HarwoodIn Pursuit Of Effective Nature Conservation Planning and DeliveryMarc Hockings, Leslie Shirreffs, Robert SpeirsPart V: Engaging and Taking Planning ActionUrban Planning and Indigenous Peoples, AustraliaMelissa Nursey-Bray and Andrew Beer"The Right to Contribute": The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Community Engagement in the Australian Context Jenny Cameron and Deanna Grant-SmithCreating spaces for action: Lessons from front line planners in the Great Barrier ReefKaren Vella and John ForesterPart VI: Planning education and research Doing Planning and Being a Planner: Employment and Education Challenges for the Australian Planning Profession Deanna Grant-Smith and Severine MayereTracing the History of Australian Planning Research and Its Influence on PracticeJason ByrneConclusionNeil Sipe and Karen Vella

Neil Sipe is Professor of Planning in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Queensland (Brisbane). His research interests include: transport and land use planning; natural resource management; and international comparisons of planning systems.　Karen Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on policy and governance dimensions of planning and evidence based frameworks for action to improve planning outcomes in urban and regional contexts. Her work has helped shape urban and regional sustainability planning and policy for climate mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, duty of care frameworks for urban and regional risk management, and the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

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• ForewordAnn ForsythIntroductionKaren Vella and Neil SipePart I: The Context of Urban and Regional PlanningThe Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and PolicyElin Charles-EdwardsEmployment, income and (in)equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain SightDavid WadleyPart II: Critical debates in Australian PlanningPlanning and the Nirvana of Economic DevelopmentGlen SearleUrban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading In the Right Directions?John ByrneRegionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New FrontiersJennifer Bellamy and Brian HeadThe Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis Robert FreestoneNorthern Australia: A Contested LandscapeAllan P. Dale, Ruth Potts and Sharon HarwoodAustralian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?Kristian Ruming, Nicole Gurran, Paul Maginn and Robin GoodmanPhysical Determinism and Australian CitiesPatrick N. TroyGetting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?Joe Hurley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jago DodsonPart III: Topics in planning policyNeoliberalism and the Housing Affordability CrisisKeith JacobsGerotopia: The ‘Good Life’ For Life Hereafter Caryl BosmanHow Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to 'Balanced' Mobility and Transport PlanningMatthew Burke and Jianqiang CuiPorts As Critical Infrastructure Keeping Connected Requires a Long-Term ViewGavin McCullagh BE (Civil) BA GDURP; Douglas Baker PhDPlanning For Food Justice within Urban AustraliaNicolette LarderPart IV: Climate change, disaster risk and environmental managementHow Planning Can Address the Challenge of Transitioning to Low Carbon Urban EconomiesIan LoweClimate Change: Local Governments Adapting To the Wicked Problem of Sea Level RiseAnne LeitchMainstreaming Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Capabilities for Australian Urban Planning Alan March and Stephen DoversThe Quality of Australian Regional NRM PlansMichael Lockwood and Andrew HarwoodIn Pursuit Of Effective Nature Conservation Planning and DeliveryMarc Hockings, Leslie Shirreffs, Robert SpeirsPart V: Engaging and Taking Planning ActionUrban Planning and Indigenous Peoples, AustraliaMelissa Nursey-Bray and Andrew Beer"The Right to Contribute": The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Community Engagement in the Australian Context Jenny Cameron and Deanna Grant-SmithCreating spaces for action: Lessons from front line planners in the Great Barrier ReefKaren Vella and John ForesterPart VI: Planning education and research Doing Planning and Being a Planner: Employment and Education Challenges for the Australian Planning Profession Deanna Grant-Smith and Severine MayereTracing the History of Australian Planning Research and Its Influence on PracticeJason ByrneConclusionNeil Sipe and Karen Vella