The Ghost Cities of Australia A survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia's 21st Century Development /

• Main Author: Bolleter, Julian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Urban geography.; Urban economics.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Economics.

This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles - environmental, societal, and economic - that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia's 21st century population growth are borne...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Australia Unlimited
• Chapter 3. Decentralisation Fever
• Chapter 4. Incidental Decentralisation
• Chapter 5. An Informed Urban Vision for the North.