In addition to celebrating the end of each year and the start of a new one, we also at this time of year sadly reflect on the number of live...

Increasingly, I am curious why the presence of a train station on a map immediately conjures up in the minds of some urban planners images o...

  “Business as usual is broken” I’ll say to someone. Their head nods in furious agreement. Whether that head belongs to a property industr...

A million people generate a lot of demand for things. Hospitals included. In Australia, we need on average 1 hospital bed for every 270 peop...

  The much-hyped Queens Wharf Casino project originally promised to lure thousands of high spending Asian tourists (and gamblers) to Brisban...

  In the previous article I observed that s ome 70% of Australians live in our 8 largest cities. By comparison, in the USA their 10 largest ...

Australia’s large cities are facing extraordinary population growth pressure, with symptoms manifesting themselves in everything from shorta...

  There’s a great line from the comedy show Kath & Kim, where the very suburban Kim expresses her desire to be like affluent city people...

Many in the development community cite population growth as a necessary ingredient for market health. To some extent, that’s true – except w...