Santosh Bista is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He is an urban and regional planner and policy analyst with expertise in urban and regional economic planning and modelling. He has researched, taught and published extensively in this area.

Deborah Black is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Deborah has over 30 years experience as an applied statistician in the areas of survey design, fieldwork management, interpretation of social data and planning based on survey outcomes.

John Black served on the Commonwealth Government Ecologically Sustainable Development Transport Working Group and has held a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship to research sustainable urban transport policies. In 2005–7 he directed an international collaborative research project on employment and transport in Australian and Asian cities.

Edward J. Blakely is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Policy at the University of Sydney and Director of the Planning Research Centre. He is an internationally known planner with extensive professional practice experience. He is currently on leave serving as Executive Director of Recovery for the City of New Orleans.

John Dee is an environmental planning academic teaching and researching in the area of environmental science, planning and politics at the University of Sydney. His main interests are in planning theory, its relevance to practice and specifically the development of normative decision models capable of delivering more ecologically and socially acceptable outcomes. vii

Ken Doust is an experienced planning and engineering manager. He has a passion for the role of infrastructure planning and urban infrastructure in a climate change future. Ken’s research topics include performance metrics and modelling of sustainable land use and transport systems.

Tony Gilmour is Research Policy Manager at the University of Sydney’s Planning Research Centre. His current doctoral research focuses on the capacity of non-profit housing organisations to increase the supply of affordable housing, comparing approaches in Australia, England and America. Tony is author of Sustaining heritage: giving the past a future published by Sydney University Press (2007).

Nicole Gurran is an Associate Professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Australian urban land use planning: introducing statutory planning practice in NSW published by Sydney University Press (2007). Her research focuses on local planning, housing, and managing urban development in highly sensitive environmental contexts.

Richard Hu is an urban planning doctoral student at the University of Sydney. His doctoral research compares the transformations of the central cities of Sydney and San Francisco in the context of globalisation. Richard’s other research interests include global cities, central city revitalisation and the creative class.

Godfrey Lubulwa works as Manager, Maritime and Rail Statistics at the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics. He is an economist with expertise in quantitative economic modelling. Godfrey has also worked as a Regional Research Economist in the same institution for many years.

Alan Peters is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney. His research and teaching interests are economic development policy, the application of GIS to urban planning and the simulation of land use change using three-dimensional visualisation environments. Alan has worked in a number of countries both as a planner and as an academic. viii

Peter Phibbs is the coordinator of academic programmes at the University of Western Sydney’s Urban Research Centre. His main research interest is affordable housing but he is also exploring the use of short courses, films and the Internet to educate planning professionals about key policy issues such as climate change.

Rafael E. Pizarro is a lecturer at the University of Sydney teaching postgraduate courses in sustainable urban environments, urban design and development controls, and advanced urban design-planning studios. His research interests include sustainable urban development, climate change, planning in the developing world, and the image of the city in entertainment media.

Ashutosh Sarker is an ecological economist, employed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. His areas of interest include common property, ecosystem services and institutional economics, specialising in Australia and Japan.

Krishna K. Shrestha is a human geographer, employed as a lecturer in Environmental Planning and Management at the University of Sydney. His interests are in the political ecology of community-based environmental planning, socio-environmental justice and sustainability, particularly in Australia and South Asia.

The chapters in this book have been refereed using a double peer review process. Each contribution was refereed by two of the editors of the book for acceptance, acceptance subject to modification or rejection. Final chapters were checked by the lead editor as having met their referee report requirements before being cleared for publication.