Title Australian cities : continuity and change / Clive Forster

Edition Third edition Published South Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description xv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 23 cm Series Meridian Meridian, Australian geographical perspectives Meridian (Melbourne, Vic.) Meridian, Australian geographical perspectives Contents 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 Summary 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 Analysis Cities and towns Economic conditions Social change Suburbs Local government Housing Labour market Equity Statistics Interstate comparisons Australia overseas comparisons Notes Includes index Previous ed.: 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and index Audience For tertiary students Subject City and town life -- Australia. City planning -- Australia. Cities and towns -- Australia -- Growth. Cities and towns -- Australia -- History. Cities and towns -- Australia. Urban policy -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 Author Forster, C. A. (Clive A.) LC no. 2004463788 ISBN 0195517342

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