Inner-city Adelaide suburbs are being given priority in infrastructure spending over needy outer suburbs in a deliberate economic move to increase the city’s “liveability” rating and global standing, an urban planning report says.
Labor’s car parking policy is yet another example of Adelaide’s insistence on a completely counter-productive approach to managing traffic, argues David Washington.
Other countries are planning new cities using technological innovation to achieve more sustainable development. Wendy Steele asks why Australia’s focus is almost solely on growing our existing metropolises.
SPECIAL REPORT | The way South Australians design their communities and their homes must change, planners warn, with the impacts of climate change a present reality. Stephanie Richards reports on how the state has been preparing its built form – and what needs to happen next.