City Limits: Why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them

Jane-Frances Kelly,Paul Donegan

City Limits: Why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Published
1 March 2015
Pages
232
ISBN
9780522868005

City Limits: Why Australia’s cities are broken and how we can fix them

Jane-Frances Kelly,Paul Donegan

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 live and how our economy works.

The distance between where people live and where they work is growing fast. The housing market isn’t working, locking many Australians out of where and how they’d like to live. The daily commute is getting longer, putting pressure on social and family life and driving up living costs.

Instead of bringing us together, Australia’s cities are dividing Australians-between young and old, rich and poor, the outer suburbs and the inner city. Neglecting our cities has real consequences for our lives now, and for our future prosperity.

Using stories and case studies to show how individuals, families and businesses experience life in cities today, this book provides an account of why Australia’s cities are broken, and how to fix them.

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