Unrealised Opportunities for Sustainable Transport: Adelaide as an Example

Twenty-Five Years of Urban Policy and Research, 1982–2006

“…The National Housing Strategy, the Social Justice Research Program into Locational Disadvantage, the Australian Urban and Regional Development Review and a range of more specific projects funded by various Federal government departments generated a mass of urban research output and debate. The pages of Urban Policy and Research in 1994 reflected the major issues: low density suburban expansion and the debate-then at its hottest-about the policy antidote of urban consolidation (Alexander, 1994;Dunstone & Smith, 1994;Hedgcock, 1994;Phipps & Payne, 1994); housing access and affordability (Thorns, 1994;Yates, 1994); spatial inequality (Badcock, 1994;Beer, 1994;Forster, 1994;Maher, 1994;Mowbray, 1994); automobile dependence and transport policy (Mees, 1994a;Perkins & Mackintosh, 1994).…”