This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
1. The Global Greyfields Transition: Why Urban Redevelopment in
Low-Density, Car-Based Middle Suburbs Needs a New Model.-
2. The Greyfield
Challenge to Australian Governments.-
3. Distributed Green Technologies for
Regenerating Greyfields.-
4. Transport and Urban FabricsMoving from TODs to
TACs with Greyfield Regeneration.-
5. Climate Resilience and RegenerationHow
Precincts Can Adapt to and Mitigate Climate Change.-
6. Changing Attitudes to
Housing and Residential Location in Cities --- The Cultural Clash and the
Greyfield Solution.-
7. Planning, Design, Assessment, and Engagement
Processes for Greyfield Precinct Regeneration.-
8. Integrating Transition
Processes for Regenerating the Greyfields.
Peter Newton is a Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism at Swinburne Universitys Centre for Urban Transitions. Peter W.G. Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Peter is an academic who has written 20 books and over 340 papers on sustainable cities.
Dr Stephen Glackin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University in Melbourne and is currently investigating the factors required for sustainable urban transformation.
Dr Giles Thomson is an urban planner and researcher who has worked on large scale urban planning projects in the UK, China and Australia.
