Australian cities : continuity and change / Clive Forster
- Bib ID:
- 3106009
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Forster, C. A. (Clive A.)
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- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Description:
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- South Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
- xv, 236 p. : ill., maps. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195517342
- Series:
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- Meridian (Melbourne, Vic.)
- Meridian, Australian geographical perspectives.
- Summary:
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This third edition expands and updates this successful introduction to Australian cities. It examines the changing nature of Australia's major cities from a geographical perspective, and discusses the current issues in urban policy. Author from Flinders University, SA.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Foundations i
- Urbanisation 1
- Australian cities in the nineteenth century 2
- Urbanisation 2
- Metropolitan primacy 3
- Growth cycles, booms, and busts 5
- City life 6
- Urban character 10
- The first half of the twentieth century 10
- Manufacturing and city growth 11
- Suburbia triumphant 11
- The long boom 13
- Economic development 14
- Immigration and baby boom 15
- The automobile city 17
- The role of government 18
- The interests of capital 24
- Divided cities? 25
- Urban restructuring 27
- Economic restructuring 28
- New technology 30
- Demographic change 30
- Post-modern cities? 31
- The gentrification of the inner suburbs 32
- Continuity and change? 34
- 2 Cities in a GlobalisingWorld 36
- Economic change 36
- Urban entrepreneurialism 37
- Structural change in city economies 39
- Demographic change 42
- Urbanisation and urban growth 44
- Core-periphery or sunbelt-rustbelt? 46
- Mega cities? 48
- 3 Employment and Urban Structure 51
- The changing nature of employment 52
- Job opportunities 52
- Workforce participation 54
- Unemployment 55
- The growth of part-time work 56
- The changing location of jobs 57
- Patterns of employment 58
- Economic restructuring within cities 63
- The journey to work 65
- Mode of travel 66
- Job ratios and labour sheds 69
- Working at home: the electronic cottage? 71
- A new urban structure? 72
- Policy issues 74
- Environmental sustainability 75
- Equity 75
- The future? 76
- 4 Housing Questions 78
- The urban housing stock 78
- Housing structure and density 79
- Tenure 85
- The changing nature of urban households 88
- Household size 88
- Household composition 89
- The death of the traditional family? 90
- Housing needs and preferences 90
- The family life cycle 90
- Choice or constraint? 93
- Housing provision and the changing role of government 94
- Home ownership and affordability 95
- Public housing 97
- The private rental sector 102
- Urban housing issues in the twenty-first century 103
- 5 The Residential Mosaic 106
- Traditional patterns of residential differentiation 107
- Explanations 108
- Changing patterns of age structure and household composition 109
- The inner suburbs 112
- The middle suburbs 117
- The outer suburbs 118
- Changing patterns of socioeconomic status 119
- Globalisation and social polarisation 120
- The inner suburbs: 'cones of wealth'? 122
- The middle and outer suburbs: polarisation? 122
- Master planned communities: 'privatopias' or aspirations
- realised? 123
- Changing ethnic patterns 126
- Urban Aborigines 132
- A new mosaic? 133
- So what? 136
- 6 Governing the Cities 141
- The organisation of urban government 142
- The restructuring of urban government 146
- The states 147
- Local government 149
- Council amalgamations 152
- The Commonwealth 152
- Urban government in the twenty-first century 154
- The suburban backlash: Save Our Suburbs 156
- 7 Sustainable Cities? 159
- Environmentally sustainable urban development 160
- Cities and metabolic flows 162
- Energy use 164
- Greenhouse gas emission 165
- Air pollution 166
- Water use 166
- Sewage disposal 166
- Water catchment pollution 167
- Solid waste disposal 167
- Summary 168
- In search of sustainability 168
- The urban form debate 169
- Decentralisation 169
- Multi-centralisation 170
- Consolidation 171
- Summary 173
- Changing human behaviour and improving technology 174
- Market forces 174
- Legislative controls 175
- Education 175
- Urban water catchment management 176
- Local Agenda 21 176
- Recycling of household waste 178
- Environmentally sustainable housing 179
- Transport and sustainable cities 183
- Summary 188
- Sustainability, equity, and prosperity? 189
- Conclusion 191
- 8 Urban Futures 193
- Putting it all together 195
- Shaping the future? Metropolitan planning strategies 197
- Implementation? 199
- Key debates: Economic development, sustainability, and equity 200
- Economic development, globalisation, and urban policy 200
- Environmental sustainability, and urban consolidation 202
- Equity, locational disadvantage, and social exclusion 205
- Social exclusion 207
- Conclusion: Transition, continuity, and public policy 210
- Further Reading 212
- Bibliography 220
- Index 229.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Previous ed.: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-228) and index.
- For tertiary students.
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