Housing issues in Australian cities
This video is about Housing issues in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The rapid rise in housing costs and the ratio of earnings and expenses.
Read MoreThe invention that shrank the world
The intermodal container changed our world. We would never have the interconnected and global economy of today without Malcolm McLean and his system of containerization. Email: wendoverproductions@gmail.com Twitter: @WendoverPro...
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Sovereignty and Borders
Is national control of the economy a thing of the past? Can the nation state retain its control of its population and people in a globalising world?
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Demography and Global Trends
So, is the world over crowded? How would we know? Some tools can help us work that out, but the answers are often mysterious.
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Planning for the Peripatetic
– Bruce Long Many Ancient Greek Philosophers were peripatetic: they would walk about a lot...
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Philosophical ideas that impact planning decisions and directions
– Viv Straw Unlike philosophers of science, planners cannot point to a single philosophical...
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The Phenomenon that is Tourism
Tourism, is it an industry? what is an industry?
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The Philosophy of Planning Is Everywhere Urban Planning Is
– Bruce Long The state of the art in urban, town, and city planning provides lots of...
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Narratives and Planned Urban Spaces
– Bruce Long Much philosophical and literary theoretic ink has been spilled on the subject...
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Urban Planning Constructivism: The Constructivist State of the Art
– Bruce Long In an earlier article I discussed links between planning constructivism and...
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Harmony in Constructed Social Spaces, and a Metropolitan Internet Cafe Denizen
– Bruce Long What does urban and city planning have to do with Foucault’s conception...
Read MoreBusiness plan
Who are we what do we do and who is our audience and why do we need your help?
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Social Epistemology and City Planning Philosophy
– Bruce Long In a previous article, we investigated the link between the traditional...
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The Character of the City: Agency and Structure
– Bruce Long In the last article in our series, we discussed the character of the city. We...
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Rousseau and the City
What impact did Rousseau’s version of the social contract have on planning theory in the 20th century? Compared with Hume and Lock, Rousseau had a view of the social contract as a contact between the people and the government. This is the form of the contract that the USA seems to have considered in the development of their constitution. But has it had an impact on Planning and design theory?
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The climate change debate, is it a left wing conspiracy?
I don’t think that the centralists are using their agenda to create the climate change hysteria. I think elites that believe in centralised government are hiding behind climate change, which is a real risk.
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Twelve Themes for Urban Planning
The twelve themes of planning are published here in a short form. In the next few posts, I will try to elaborate on each of them.
Read MorePlanning Themes Introduction
This article is the first in a series exploring themes derived from Randolph Hester and others for development of place/cities, an Australian Ecological Democracy framework. Viv Straw if a Fellow of the PIA and Tony Trobe is an...
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Social Research and Geographers Introduction
An introduction to research for social geographers
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