This article draws from a multi‐disciplinary, multi‐institutional research project on digital work practices and graduate work readiness. Utilising the concept of technology affordances, we focus on the potential for domain‐specific learning experiences within design education. For the purpose of this project, we have articulated digital capabilities in design by adapting affordance categories in terms of three levels of complexity for scaffolded learning: functional, perceptual and adaptive. In order to further develop the relationship between technology affordances and design education, we analyse data from an industry roundtable in relation to our developed digital capability descriptor. The findings suggest that employers need designers with highly adaptive capabilities to work in increasingly complex interdisciplinary work environments. We also found that the role of designers has changed significantly in recent years that require higher educational institutions to involve industry when developing curricula.

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Casinos have become an important yet controversial element of many contemporary metropoles, with cities on the Pacific Rim no exception. Twenty years after the opening of Sydney's first casino, construction of its second is currently underway on a contentious site, the Barangaroo precinct. This paper offers a historical analysis of the current casino project against the backdrop of casino development in Australia general, comparing the current project to the development of Sydney's first casino, The Star (formerly Star City). We argue that both have been predicated on a cosmopolitan gaze contributing to the image of a 'global city' and the promise of increased tax revenues. As a result, planning processes have lacked legitimacy, particularly in the case of Crown, which involves the use of significant public assets. This paper critiques the spectacle of iconic developments of both The Star at Pyrmont and Crown Casino at Barangaroo when set against the morphology and urban form, suggesting that a more sincere engagement with the specificity of place on major developments would mitigate against the polarising effects of contested urban projects.

The governance and planning of Australian metropolitan areas are messy and state-specific affairs, with the arrangements and outcomes of each state reflecting their political leadership, policy challenges and planning ambitions. This volume is timely, both in extending the editors' previous volume The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History (Hamnett & Freestone 2000), and in adding to a growing contemporary literature calling for a metropolitan imperative in Australia (Tomlinson & Spiller 2018) and internationally (Katz & Bradley 2013). Planning Metropolitan Australia delves into the recent history of spatial strategies in the selected metropolitan regions (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, South East Queensland and Canberra), introduced with a macroscopic perspective of metropolitan change (Chapter 1), and an overview of the previous book (Chapter 2). Chapters 3-8 develop case studies on each metropolitan area, with a provocation on the metropolitan condition closing the volume (Chapter 9).