Our bush heritage helped to define our identity, but today Australia is a nation of cities. A higher proportion of Australians live in cities than almost any other country, and most of our national wealth is generated in them. For most of the twentieth century, our cities gave us some of the...

The complexity of and challenges in the emergence of megacities -- The rise of megacities : an empirical overview of the demographic changes in the world economy and an introduction to an integral theory of megacities / Jerzy Kleer and Katarzyna A. Nawrot -- Megacities : devastation of the...

"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...