The Ghost Cities of Australia: A Survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia's 21st Century Development

ISBN-13: 9783319898957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 117 str.

Julian Bolleter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Australia Unlimited

Chapter 3. Decentralisation Fever

Chapter 4. Incidental Decentralisation

Chapter 5. An Informed Urban Vision for the North

O autorze

Dr. Julian Bolleter is the Deputy Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. His role at the AUDRC includes teaching a master’s program in urban design and conducting urban design–related research and design projects. He has completed a PhD on Dubai’s urban development (which will be published in late 2018) and has commercially published three other books including ‘Made in Australia: The future of Australian cities’ (with Richard Weller), ‘Take Me to the River: A history of Perth’s foreshore’ and ‘Scavenging the Suburbs: auditing Perth for 1 million infill dwellings.’