How our regions can help make Australia’s growing cities more sustainable

By Peter Newton, Emeritus Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
James Whitten, Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, Monash University
Magnus Moglia, Associate Professor in Sustainability Science, Swinburne University of Technology
Stephen Glackin, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology

The rapid growth of our capital cities is creating all sorts of problems. Dispersing growth across regional city networks could ease these growth pains and make our cities more sustainable.

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