Books & arts
30 October 2014
Sylvia Lawson reviews Rocking the Foundations, The 50-Year Argument and The Land Between
Books & arts
11 September 2014
Angela Daly reviews Robert Crawford’s tale of two cities
Correspondents
24 July 2014
The Commonwealth Games meet a host city in flux, says David Hayes
Correspondents
16 January 2014
In Jakarta, Ross Tapsell profiles the city governor who could be the next president of Indonesia
National affairs
28 August 2013
Without a change in policies, an ageing population is likely to reduce housing affordability and increase inequality, writes Peter Mares
National affairs
5 July 2013
It’s time for the federal government to take seriously the shortage of affordable housing, writes Harold Levien
Correspondents
4 July 2013
A high-tech system of social control is being superimposed on China’s network of urban neighbourhoods, writes James Leibold in Beijing
Essays & reportage
12 December 2012
Australia’s largest cities still rely heavily on massive investments in rail before the second world war. With renewed interest in rail as a way of dealing with congestion,…
Essays & reportage
9 November 2012
Twenty-five years on, we’re still asking the same question, writes Margo Saunders
Correspondents
2 November 2012
On the eve of China’s eighteenth party congress, life in Beijing is changing in increasingly obvious ways, writes Antonia Finnane
Essays & reportage
15 August 2012
After six months of living in Alice Springs, Eleanor Hogan’s employer folded and she was offered an all-expenses-paid relocation back to Sydney. But she was in no…
Books & arts
27 February 2012
From the archive | Fifty years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s landmark book, we’re still trying to find our way around the city, writes Richard Johnstone
Essays & reportage
2 June 2011
The federal government is showing signs of getting back into the urban planning business, reports Margaret Simons
Correspondents
28 April 2011
Massive rises in the cost of housing are at last being recognised by government, writes Duncan Hewitt
Essays & reportage
28 March 2011
“Locational disadvantage” has an enormous impact on the lives of residents in many Australian suburbs. But an experiment in Sydney’s 2168 postcode area is…
Correspondents
22 March 2011
Traffic is becoming a fiercely debated topic in China’s major cities, writes Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai
Correspondents
28 January 2011
Although it symbolises China’s embrace of the market economy, Shanghai is still very much shaped by the party and entrenched corruption
Books & arts
7 October 2010
Peter Spearritt looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities
National affairs
9 September 2010
How will the world economy look in 2025? Mark Thirlwell looks at the consensus view – and the possibility of a few surprises
National affairs
1 July 2010
Forty-one mayors and a state government in crisis means that no one is in charge of Sydney, writes Jim Colman
