Suburban Consolidation: the Future of the Australian Dream?

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It has become the conventional wisdom in planning that the Australian dream of a detached house on a large block is no longer an appropriate form of development to cater for the future housing and lifestyle needs of the urban population. For social, economic and environmental reasons, \urban consolidation\" is promoted as a way of achieving a more compact accessible and sustainable suburban form. Consolidation aims to achieve improvements m the quality price efficiency and range of housing by: ‚Äö reducing urban sprawl; ‚Äö increasing the efficiency of infrastructure provision; ‚Äö making housing more affordable; ‚Äö providing housing diversity; ‚Äö improving the design of residential environments. In addressing these issues urban consolidation policy focuses on the density and form of suburban housing. These are the central issues for discussion in this project. The project sets out to analyse the role and meaning of the Australian suburban form and in that context to investigate how

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