The following links are provided for information relevant to current planning.
Reporting progress of Ambalindum Park
Hawker Community Gardens Facebook page
Margo Saunders, Canberra: what sort of city? Inside Story, 9 November 2012
Dickson Residents’ Group and Dickson Master Plan May 2011 (1.63 Mb)
Alliance of Planning Groups website: PlanWiseACT
ACT Government Community Engagement: Time to Talk
The Riot Act (9 June 2012) on community consultation
End of affordable housing in Melbourne (3.7 Mb) by Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy, Virginia Rapson and T. Fred Smith at Monash University’s Centre for Population and Urban Research
Save Our Suburbs arguments against densification
“Forcing density in Australia’s suburbs” by Tony Recsei
Professor Patrick Troy on the densification and sustainability debate
Chris Walsh, “Urban stormwater and the ecology of streams” (1 MB)
Barney Foran, Charles Sturt University, The Dolly Parton Effect: a bigger Australia may not be better, 27 April 2011
Amy Mullins, University of Melbourne, on the dilemma of growth, The Drum – Opinion, 29 April 2011
Apartments: how close is too close? The Urbanist, Crikey.com (29 May 2012) on inner city apartments
Apartment dwellers get single-minded, The Canberra Times, 16 January 2012
friends of hawker village 