City Limits by Jane-Frances Kelly - ISBN: 9780522868005
Paperback
Using stories and case studies to show how individuals, families and businesses experience life in cities today, City Limits provides an account of why Australia’s cities are broken, and how they can be fixed.

City Limits

Why Australia's Cities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

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  • Paperback

    232 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2015

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Summary

Although many of the joys of Australian life are to be found in our cities, many of our problems are as well.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 highest living standards in the world. But they are no longer keeping up with changes in how we…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522868005
ISBN-10:0522868002
Author:Jane-Frances Kelly, Paul Donegan
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:232
Release Date:1 March 2015
Weight:305g
Dimensions:231mm x 152mm x 17mm
About The Author

Jane-Frances Kelly

Jane-Frances Kelly was Cities Program Director at the Grattan Institute from 2009 to 2014. She has led strategy work for the United Kingdom, Queensland, Victorian and Commonwealth governments. Prior to moving to Australia in 2004, she spent three years in the British Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.Paul Donegan is Fellow, Cities at the Grattan Institute. He has helped governments tackle some of Australia’s biggest social and economic challenges, as a Commonwealth and state public servant, ministerial adviser and at the Grattan Institute.

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