Australia’s largest cities still rely heavily on massive investments in rail before the second world war. With renewed interest in rail as a way of dealing with congestion, Peter Mares looks at what history can tell us about the value of reinvesting in railways
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Twenty-five years on, we’re still asking the same question, writes Margo Saunders
09 Nov 12 Comments (2)
On the eve of China’s eighteenth party congress, life in Beijing is changing in increasingly obvious ways, writes Antonia Finnane
02 Nov 12 Comments (0)
After six months of living in Alice Springs, Eleanor Hogan’s employer folded and she was offered an all-expenses-paid relocation back to Sydney. But she was in no hurry to leave
27 Aug 12 Comments (3)
Fifty years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s landmark book, we’re still trying to find our way around the city, writes Richard Johnstone
27 Feb 12 Comments (3)
The federal government is showing signs of getting back into the urban planning business, reports Margaret Simons
02 Jun 11 Comments (1)
Massive rises in the cost of housing are at last being recognised by government, writes Duncan Hewitt
28 Apr 11 Comments (0)
“Locational disadvantage” has an enormous impact on the lives of residents in many Australian suburbs. But an experiment in Sydney’s 2168 postcode area is yielding results, writes Melissa Sweet
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Traffic is becoming a fiercely debated topic in China’s major cities, writes Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai
22 Mar 11 Comments (0)
Although it symbolises China’s embrace of the market economy, Shanghai is still very much shaped by the party and struggling to overcome entrenched corruption, writes Peter Browne
28 Jan 11 Comments (0)
BOOKS | Peter Spearritt looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities
07 Oct 10 Comments (1)
How will the world economy look in 2025? Mark Thirlwell looks at the consensus view – and the possibility of a few surprises
09 Sep 10 Comments (1)
Forty-one mayors and a state government in crisis means that no one is in charge of Sydney, writes Jim Colman
01 Jul 10 Comments (1)
If you want to find out what’s happening in Australia’s cities today, don’t go to the glossy planning documents, writes Peter Spearritt
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Two new reports spell out pragmatic and overdue reforms to Australia’s anti-terrorism laws. But does the political will exist to act, ask Jessie Blackbourn and Nicola McGarrity
Europe’s carbon pricing woes cast further doubt on the credibility of Australia’s scheme and on Treasury’s forecasts of the revenue it will reap for the budget, writes Fergus Green
