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Title Australia's unintended cities : the impact of housing on urban development / edited by Richard Tomlinson.

Publication Info. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: a housing lens on Australia's unintended cities; Housing institutional and policy disarray; The intended cities; This book; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 2 Transforming Australia's 'housing solution': how we can better plan suburbia to meet our future challenges; Introduction; Origins; First fix; Towards intention; Reconstructing suburbia; Housing to the limits; Future trajectories; Consolidating suburbia; Conclusion; References; 3 The Australian residential housing market: institutions and actors; Introduction.
Housing markets and the institutional contextThe management subsystem: policy and housing market relationships; The production subsystem; The exchange and consumption subsystems; Conclusion; References; 4 Housing affordability, affordable housing and the policy agenda; Australia's housing affordability challenge; Delivering affordable housing; Ways forward; References; 5 Household debt: mortgage lending practices and the housing market; Introduction; Comparative background; The evolution of Australia's housing finance sector; Loan features and 'risk-mitigating' mechanisms.
Attributes that sustained the housing market during the GFCHousehold debt; Negative equity and house price risk; The national supply shortfall; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 6 Housing policies and wealth inequality; Household and housing wealth; Housing markets and housing wealth; Housing finance in Australia; Tax incentives to utilise housing finance; Why does wealth inequality matter?; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; 7 Planning systems, urban form and housing; Neoliberal urban planning; Facilitation and corporatisation; Centralisation and local control; Planning systems and urban form.
The unintended consequences of housing policiesConclusion; Endnotes; References; 10 The energy and carbon footprints of urban housing and transport: current trends and future prospects; Introduction; Energy and carbon signatures of Australian households; Key trends in energy, housing and transport: implications for CO2 emissions; Integrated perspectives on housing, transport and environmental performance; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Index.
Summary Explores housing and housing-related urban outcomes that are unintended consequences of other policies in Australia.
Access Online access restricted to licenced organisations.
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Subject Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Urbanization -- Social aspects.
Australia.
Urbanization.
Urbanization -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
Urbanization -- Economic aspects.
Regional planning -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Regional planning -- Social aspects.
Regional planning.
Regional planning -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
Regional planning -- Economic aspects.
Dwellings -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Dwellings -- Social aspects.
Indexed Term Australian
Urbanisation
Town planning
Housing
Household debt
Residential property
Prices and charges
Affordability
Wealth distribution
Case studies
Social policy
Government regulation
Sustainable development
Interstate comparisons
Australia overseas comparisons
Statistics
Trends
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Tomlinson, Richard, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: 9780643103771
ISBN 9780643103788 (electronic book)
0643103783 (electronic book)
9780643103771
0643103775
9780643103771