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Author Bolleter, Julian, author.

Title The ghost cities of Australia : a survey of new city proposals and their lessons for Australia's 21st century development / Julian Bolleter
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 117 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series SpringerBriefs in Geography, 2211-4165
SpringerBriefs in geography, 2211-4165
Contents Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Australia Unlimited -- Chapter 3. Decentralisation Fever -- Chapter 4. Incidental Decentralisation -- Chapter 5. An Informed Urban Vision for the North
Summary This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia's 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century. This is particularly the case in northern Australia, where the federal government projects a four-fold increase in population in the next four decades. The book aims that, when we commence 21st century new city dreaming, we have learnt from the mistakes of the past and, are not doomed to repeat them
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2020)
Subject City planning -- Australia
Urban geography.
Urban economics.
human geography.
Urban economics.
Human geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
City planning.
Geography.
Urban economics.
Urban geography.
Australia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319898964
3319898965