Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia

Part One: Sustainable Urban Planning and City of Sydney Neighbourhood Planning

Chapter 1: Sustainable Urban Planning

Chapter 2: City of Sydney Neighbourhood Planning

Part Two: City of Sydney - City East Case Studies

Chapter 3: Woolloomooloo - Redevelopment and Green Bans

Chapter 4: Kings Cross - Neighbourhood Preservation in Tourist Precinct

Part Three: City of Sydney - Inner South Case Studies

Chapter 5: Chippendale - Village Revival in Face of Development

Chapter 6: Redfern and Waterloo District - Public and Private Housing Balance

Part Four: City of Sydney - Inner West Case Study

Chapter 7: Erskineville - Redevelopment vs. Rehabilitation

Part Five: City of Sydney - City West Case Studies

Chapter 8: Haymarket District - Neighbourhood and Precincts Expansion

Chapter 9: Pyrmont and Ultimo District - Government Sponsored Redevelopment

Part Six: City of Sydney - North West Case Study

Chapter 10: Glebe - Building on Traditional Neighbourhoods

Part Seven: City of Sydney - City South Case Study and Book Conclusions and Directions

Chapter 11: South Sydney - City South Growth Centre

Chapter 12: Conclusions and Directions for Sustainable Neighbourhood Planning

Raymond Charles RauscherI have always been interested in town planning, being born in Brooklyn, New York City (1943) and graduating from the City College of New York (Bachelor of Engineering, Civil 1966). I later completed a first part of a masters degree at the Univ of Michigan (research submission on Detroit entitled A Solution to the Urban Crisis: Proposal for the Creation of Region Serving New Cities (unpublished 1969). The Masters of Town and Country Planning was completed at Sydney University (1971) with a thesis Community Response to a Redevelopment Proposal (University of Sydney Library Microfilm Dept). The thesis covered planning conflicts in Erskineville and measures to resolving these. Chapter 7 of this book refers back to the planning of Erskineville in 1971, and lessons learned. Delving into the subject of sustainable urban planning, I completed a PhD (2009) at the University of Newcastle, including the thesis Sustainable Area Planning Framework for Ecologically Sustainable Development: Case Study Wyong Shire, NSW, Australia.Wanting to research further the subject of sustainable urban planning, I published (with co-author Salim Momtaz) Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning - Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area (Springer 2014). Over the years I continued to study urban change in my birth place Brooklyn (New York). My interest was drawn to Bushwick (my old neighborhood), an area of Brooklyn that met its low point of urban slide in the 1977 arson fires. I did field work over several years, from 1979 onwards, to better understand reasons for USA style urban decline and renewal. This culminated in the book (with co-author Salim Momtaz) Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA (Springer 2014). Still wanting to understand the urban changes in inner city neighbourhoods (beyond Erskineville of 1971), I continued (over a number of years) to monitor planning and development of the City of Sydney inner city areas. This

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