John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Janet Stanley, Honorary Associate Professor, the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne and Roslynne Hansen, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a practicing urban planner who has worked in Australia and the Asia Pacific

‘In an urban age disrupted by pandemics, war, economic crisis, and a failing global ecology, the second edition of How Great Cities Happen could not have come at a more important time. Its insightful lessons from urban policy making and governance in a variety of global cities, including the authors’ home town of Melbourne, extend and improve upon their earlier work. The book presents a very valuable and timely resource for government and citizens and deserves to be widely read and discussed.’

• Contents: Preface 1. Why this book? 2. What constitutes a ‘good city’: some case studies 3. Economic influences on strategic land use transport policy and planning 4. Land use and transport designed to meet social needs 5. A neighbourhood structured for children and youth 6. Housing affordability: a major problem for many cities 7. The environmental interface of cities 8. Governance 9. Funding 10. Putting an integrated land use transport strategy together References Index

John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Janet Stanley, Honorary Associate Professor, the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne and Roslynne Hansen, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a practicing urban planner who has worked in Australia and the Asia Pacific

‘In an urban age disrupted by pandemics, war, economic crisis, and a failing global ecology, the second edition of How Great Cities Happen could not have come at a more important time. Its insightful lessons from urban policy making and governance in a variety of global cities, including the authors’ home town of Melbourne, extend and improve upon their earlier work. The book presents a very valuable and timely resource for government and citizens and deserves to be widely read and discussed.’

• Contents: Preface 1. Why this book? 2. What constitutes a ‘good city’: some case studies 3. Economic influences on strategic land use transport policy and planning 4. Land use and transport designed to meet social needs 5. A neighbourhood structured for children and youth 6. Housing affordability: a major problem for many cities 7. The environmental interface of cities 8. Governance 9. Funding 10. Putting an integrated land use transport strategy together References Index