Retrofitting suburbia : urban design solutions for redesigning suburbs [Find this book at: 307.760973 RET 2009]

Authors: Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson

"While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. Here is a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions."--BOOK JACKET.

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Enforcement of planning and environmental laws in Queensland [book]

Author: Leanne O'Brien

This book provides a detailed guide to handling enforcement issues and proceedings in the planning and environment jurisdiction in Queensland.

Written for lawyers, compliance officers and local government prosecutors who are new to the field, topics covered include planning and environmental offences, conditions of development approvals, investigations, statutory notices, duplicity, negotiations, compromising prosecutions, court proceedings, defences and sentencing. Explanations of the law are supported by analyses of cases, practical commentary and practice tips. While aimed primarily at new-comers to the jurisdiction, the text's extensive scope and analyses mean aspects of the work will also be of interest to experienced practitioners.

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Land acquisition : an examination of the principles of law governing the compulsory acquisition or resumption of land in Australia [book]

Author: Douglas Brown

"Outlines the principles of one of the more difficult branches of law. It aims to digest the many judicial decisions into a form that reveals the essential elements and also seeks to summarise and abbreviate the critical statutory provisions in each jurisdiction." - from publisher.

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Spatially varying effects of re-zoning on housing price (journal article)
by Seong-Hoon Cho, Seung Gyu Kim and Dayton M. Lambert
from Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, Vol 21 No 1 2009
"A hedonic price equation is estimated at the parcel level to capture the spatially-varying effects of rezoning on housing prices using a geographically weighted regression - spatial autoregressive error model (GWR-SEM). The empirical results highlight a number of points. Firstly, the positive amenities from rezoning to office use act as a buffer and transition the zones between single family housing to commercial zones near downtown areas may be applicable to approving the same kind of rezoning in other areas. Secondly, when approving rezoning from agriculture to residential or commercial use, it may be necessary to anticipate the positive amenities from rezoning in less well-off neighborhoods and the negative amenities from rezoning in well-off neighborhoods. Thirdly, the positive amenities from well-designed open space preservation districts may encourage county planners to consider similar types of projects in the future."

Innovation cities analysis report [book]

Author: Christopher Hire / 2Thinknow

"Analyses the global context for cities, identifies where innovation out-performance is occuring and provides a detailed set of indicators to measure and improve performance. ... Draws on leading thinkers, professors, and ideas and compiles them into an analysis, and an easy-to-understand framework of 162 indicators to measure a city." - publisher's website.

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Australia on the move 2009 [online]

Authors: Property Council of Australia. Residential Development Council / Matusik

"Identifies population forecasts over the next 20 years with a focus on the next five year cycle. This report covers the key hotspots to watch as well as highlights the housing needs and shortfalls of the key 42 capital and regional centres around the country." - executive summary.

Innovation policies for the 21st century : report of a symposium [book]

Editors: Charles W. Wessner, Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy & others.

"How can we better capitalize on national investments in research? More specifically, how can we deliver the fruits of research through products and processes that both enhance welfare and generate wealth? And how do we generate the types of output from our universities and research centers that will help our regional economies grow and meet the challenges of the future? Beyond merely focusing on increasing inputs (such as more funds for basic research) on one hand or setting output targets and mandating results on the other, the innovation ecosystem approach examines the complex processes through which innovations emerge through a variety of collaborative activities to become commercially valuable products." - page 5.
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Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining (e-book)
by Jon Altman and David Martin (Editors)
from CAEPR Monograph No. 30
This collection of papers focuses on three large, ongoing mining operations in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory under two statutory regimes—the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the Native Title Act 1993. The authors outline the institutional basis to greater industry involvement while describing and analysing the best practice principles that can be utilised both by companies and Indigenous community organisations.

Water and Wastewater Services in Non-Metropolitan New South Wales: A Critical Analysis of the Report of the Independent Inquiry (journal article)
by Brian Dollery
from Agenda, Vol 16 No 2 2009
"The Commonwealth's assumption of greater control over water policy has been justified on the grounds that a 'national approach' to the problems in the Murray-Darling Basin is required to resolve the ills of the Basin. This paper investigates the validity of this contention in the context of the Federal government's 'Water for the Future' manifesto. The paper argues that the current naive understanding of 'water use efficiency' concepts is likely to stymie any purported basin-wide gains from a 'national approach' to water policy."

NSW Government to cover Planning Panel costs (article)
by Angela Dorizas
from Government News, 5 June 2009
"The New South Wales Government has allocated $2.4 million in the 2009-10 State budget to establish, operate and administer the newly announced Joint Regional Planning Panels (JRPP). Keneally said the $2.4 million in funding would cover costs associated with the establishment, operation and administration of the panels, as well as employment costs for three state members."

Promoting Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context (journal article)
By Cali Nuur, Linda Gustavsson and Staffan Laestadius
from Industry & Innovation Vol 16 Iss 1 Feb 2009, pp. 123 - 139
"Ever since the innovation systems (IS) concept was coined in the late 1980s, it has been accepted as a mechanism of economic and technological development in policy circles. This recognition follows a change in our understanding of the characteristics of the innovation process as a non-linear process and having a systemic character. This changed understanding is also reflected in the movement in policy focus from science and technology (S&T) policy towards innovation policy. In recent years, the IS approach has been downscaled from the national level (NIS) to the regional level (RIS), a system's level that has gained the interest of policy makers. There are many rationales for this regionalization of innovation policy. However, as this paper points out, there are several challenges to implement an IS policy on the regional level. Based on a case study of a Swedish regional policy programme, this paper highlights (some of) the challenges related to defining the regional system's domain, implementing functional regions and securing sufficient regional knowledge infrastructure. This paper argues that when the IS approach is put into policy practice and downscaled to the regional level, it stands the risk of losing its strength as a tool for coping with the structural problems connected to innovation and globalization. Based on the identified challenges, the paper is concluded with a number of more general policy implications for IS-based policies with regional intentions. "

Lost in translation? Building science and innovation city strategies in Australia and the UK (journal article)
by Paul K Couchman, Ian McLoughlin and David R Charles
from Innovation: Management, policy and practice, Vol 10. No 2/3, October-December 2008
"With the development of the 'knowledge economy' in many advanced industrial nations, there has been a growing interest in regional innovation systems and the role that universities might play in these. One result has been the demarcation by government actors of specific spaces for the creation, transfer and transformation of knowledge. Such spaces have been given various names, such as 'smart regions', 'science cities' and 'innovation corridors'. Whilst the associated policy rhetoric has much in common with the earlier interest in science and technology parks there are also clear distinguishing differences. More recent policy initiatives have sought to foster industry clusters within these spaces to contribute to economic development and diversification and link this to economic, social and cultural regeneration. This paper explores policy-driven creation of 'innovation areas' by focusing on two contrasting examples: Newcastle Science City in the North East of England and the Gold Coast Pacific Innovation Corridor in Queensland, Australia. The paper compares the rhetoric of university-industry-government policies with the realities.

Balanced national development policy in Korea : theory and practice [book]

Author: Korea. Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development

Outlines how South Korea's change in economic policy has resulted in a knowledge-based economy where innovation and economic growth occurs in regional areas, and not just in metropolitan areas.

Changing residential landscapes: climate change, communities and concepts of place in tourist cities, a Gold Coast study (journal article)
by Caryl Bosman
from Australian Planner, December 2008
The areas of the city most affected by climate change, and, in particular, sea level rise, are where some of the key real estate and tourism landscapes are located. In addition, an apparent shortage of land for development, coupled with high population growth and climate change has significant impacts for the Gold Coast City Council and the state and federal governments.Together these factors highlight the urgent need to understand the social, ecological and economical issues attached to housing landscapes on the Gold Coast.
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Global innovation review 2007 annual : the world’s top innovation cities and global innovation rankings [book]
Christopher Hire

Ranks the world’s most innovation-friendly cities, describes the model used to make this assessment, and considers the ’change waves’ which will most affect leading economies.

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Polishing Belgium's Innovation Jewel (journal article)
by Fientje Moerman
from Issues in Science & Technology , Vol. 24 No. 1, Fall 2007 pp. 45 - 50
"The article presents information on the Flanders region, situated in the northern part of Belgium. The region is a natural meeting point for knowledge and talent, attracted by its highly skilled population, splendid cultural heritage, outstanding quality of life, excellent research, and easy accessibility. Its capital city Brussels doubles as the capital of Belgium and the headquarters of the European Union. Its open economy is dominated by the service sector and by small and medium-sized enterprises. The primary activities in the services sector are education, business services, and health care."

The national and regional economic consequences of rapid growth in Australia's telecommunications sector.
By James Giesecke
An article from Economic Analysis and Policy 36,(1/2) pp 61-97
This paper investigates the national and regional economic consequences of the sector's growth over the period 1996/97 to 2001/02 using a multi-regional CGE model of the Australian economy.