Publisher: UWA Publishing, ISBN: 9781760803063, Authors:Julian Bolleter and Robert Freestone, Format: Softcover, 20.32 x 25.4 cm, 312pp
Australia stands at a crossroads. As ecological, social and economic pressures mount, how the nation plans its cities will define its future. Planning for a Continent of Cities by Julian Bolleter and Robert Freestone offers a bold, evidence-based vision for sustainable urban settlement at a continental scale.
Drawing on leading scientific research and broad social opinion, Bolleter and Freestone move beyond the limitations of current metropolitan growth policies to propose a National Urban Policy built around a thriving network of regional cities. The result is a landmark work of urban planning — rigorous, far-sighted and urgently relevant.
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'Some 50 years after Ideas for Australian Cities appeared we now have another milestone publication that envisions future pathways to the grand challenge of planning more sustainable and resilient cities – the nation’s greatest asset.' — EMERITUS PROFESSOR PETER W. NEWTON, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Centre for Urban Transitions
'It is a time of interlocking planetary crises – ecological, social and economic – Bolleter and Freestone ask what this means for one of the world’s most urbanised continents, Australia.'— PROFESSOR BRENDAN GLEESON, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne.