He mentions several redevelopment projects which are boasted as eco-suburbs. He comments that creating transition pathways is crucial to achieve sustainable growth and that good real-world examples are needed to demonstrate its feasibility.

It discusses urban redevelopment strategies in the suburbs of Australia and provides a historical background of past metropolitan planning frameworks.

Topics discussed include considering multi-functionality, diversity, and connectivity in resilient urban parks, managing the park system by developing policies for the sustainable parks, and need of cost management and customer interaction.

Topics discussed include the importance of sustainable parks, the pillars of sustainability that include environmental, social and aesthetic, and the strategies to include in landscape plans of resilient parks, including biological and social diversity. It also cites the important role to be played by green infrastructure in making cities more sustainable.

It notes that the strategy promotes sustainable transport modes and encourage healthy and active lifestyles. It mentions that the strategy created three parks through road and car park conversion.

The legal and administrative processes involved in park improvement project is explored. The benefits of increasing parkland through these processes is also discussed.

More substantial improvements and endeavours such as onsite food production, energy generation and waste treatment, are being seen increasingly as necessary for urban sustainability, yet little is being done to institutionalise or normalise these through Australia's housing system. Similarly, concerns about the social sustainability of housing identify the need for mixed, flexible tenure and dwelling types, with again little uptake despite evidence of demand. Given that we seem to know what needs doing to move towards sustainability, this paper investigates two ecologically and socially sound community-based housing developments in Australia, with a view to finding what helped or hindered these efforts and what may further the uptake of sustainable design.