Delivering the Compact City in Australia: Current Trends and Future Implications

By Bill Randolph. 2006

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This article presents an overview of the characteristics of the market for higher density residential property (flats, units and town houses) in the three largest Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The article then discusses some of the implications of current planning proposals for further higher density housing in Australian cities under urban consolidation or compact city policies and reviews a range of issues that may well arise. In particular, issues concerning the role of the rental investment market and Strata Title framework in determining the outcomes of current metropolitan compact city policies and the implications of higher density housing for social stability are discussed.

Subfields: Demography, Finance

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In Demography

1. P. Newton
2. C. Ambrey
3. P. Troy
4. Jago Dodson
5. Christopher M. Fleming
6. N. Sipe
7. Bill Randolph

In Finance

1. P. Newton
2. Jago Dodson
3. N. Sipe
4. C. Ambrey
5. P. Troy
6. Christopher M. Fleming
7. Bill Randolph

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond greenfields and brownfields: the challenge of regenerating Australia's greyfield suburbs (2010, background): “…assessment and rating tools on new construction over retrofitting; • Strata title and its inhibiting effect on redevelopment of medium density housing blocks (Randolph, 2006); • ‘Save our Suburbs’ and NIMBY movements that are responding to much inappropriately designed and piecemeal infill…”
• Attitudes to conservation and water consumption (2008, background): “Target quotas of 500 responses per dwelling type were set, but the difficulties of obtaining responses from flats meant the final quotas were skewed towards houses (for a full account of the survey and focus group research see Troy and Randolph, 2006).”
• Public Greenspace and Life Satisfaction in Urban Australia (2014, background): “In contrast, opponents (cf. Forster, 2006; Randolph, 2006) observe the loss of precious public open space to urban infill, increased noise, gentrification, poorly matched preferences, concentrated social disadvantage, and potentially undermined social cohesion.”
• Energy requirements of consumption: Urban form, climatic and socio-economic factors, rebounds and their policy implications (2013, background): “For further contributions on the implications and prospects for urban consolidation in the Australian context, see (Buxton and Scheurer, 2005; Forster, 2006; Randolph, 2006; Dodson and Sipe, 2008; Gray and Gleeson, 2007).”
• Shocking the Suburbs: Urban Location, Homeownership and Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City (2008, background): “Randolph (2006) has demonstrated that higher density residential development in Australian cities is associated with markedly lower levels of homeownership than conventional lower density suburban development.”