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URBAN HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN CITIES |
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| Authors: | Lionel Frost Seamus O'Hanlon |
| Institution: | 1. Monash University;2. Monash University
We are grateful to the editors of AEHR, Stephen Morgan and Martin Shanahan, for their support. Simone Sharpe provided excellent editorial assistance. We thank Simon Ville for comments and advice on the project, and the colleagues who refereed the papers. The research for this article was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project numbers DP0557958 and DP0663310). |
| Abstract: | Urban growth is a major theme in economic development and a policy imperative for developed countries that seek to create sustainable cities. We argue that the past weighs heavily on the ability of societies to sustainably manage urban environments. The policy implications of urban history are revealed in comparisons of cities across times and between places. The special issue presents some of the best recent work on the economic and social history of Australian cities. We aim to encourage historians to incorporate urban variables into studies of historical processes and to persuade policymakers to consider historical trends in their analysis. |
| Keywords: | N9 N97 O18 Australian cities sustainability urban history urbanisation |