| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The heritage of planning | |
| Understanding and defining planning | |
| Approach | |
| A National Narrative | p. 6 |
| Colonial foundations | |
| Recognising the need for urban reform | |
| Emergence of the modern town planning movement | |
| Planning achievements and changing priorities in the 1920s and 1930s | |
| Post-war reconstruction | |
| The long boom | |
| Rethinking planning | |
| The vicissitudes of national urban policy | |
| Responding to change | |
| Neo-liberalism | |
| Globalisation and the quality of life in the 2000s | |
| Conclusion | |
| Imagining Ideal Places | p. 44 |
| Urban settlements | |
| Suburban extension | |
| Urban redevelopment | |
| Founding the Capital Cities | p. 74 |
| Sydney | |
| Hobart | |
| Perth | |
| Melbourne | |
| Brisbane | |
| Adelaide | |
| Darwin | |
| Canberra | |
| A Nation of Planned Towns | p. 98 |
| Spreading beyond Sydney | |
| The Macquarie towns | |
| The urban frontier in the 1820s | |
| Town design under Governor Darling | |
| Western Australia | |
| South Australia | |
| End of an era | |
| Critique of the grid | |
| New cities for a new nation | |
| New towns in balanced national development | |
| New towns in regional economic development | |
| Planned industrial communities | |
| Early mining towns | |
| Irrigation towns | |
| Planned regional resource development | |
| Other specialist new towns | |
| Modern mining towns | |
| The rise of the leisure community | |
| Metropolitan Strategies | p. 134 |
| The nineteenth century | |
| Early 1900s | |
| The 1920s | |
| The 1940s | |
| The 1950s | |
| Corridor cities of the 1960s | |
| The Canberra Y Plan | |
| The transport-land use planning nexus | |
| Towards sustainable metropolitan strategies 1970s-1990s | |
| Contemporary plans | |
| Suburban Dreams | p. 170 |
| Late colonial model suburbs | |
| Federation model suburbs | |
| The coming of the garden suburb | |
| State-assisted garden suburb development 1910s-1920s | |
| Suburban industrial villages | |
| Planned subdivisions | |
| The 1930s | |
| The 1940s | |
| The rise, fall and regeneration of public housing estates | |
| Radburn plans | |
| The neighbourhood unit | |
| The 1960s | |
| New trends and shifting priorities in the 1970s and 1980s | |
| Master planned communities | |
| Renewing Cities | p. 206 |
| Early city improvement | |
| Late nineteenth-century issues | |
| The early twentieth century | |
| At mid-century | |
| 1940s reconstruction ideology | |
| Urban renewal in public housing | |
| Commercial redevelopment | |
| Inner-city revitalisation | |
| Contesting renewal | |
| From renewal to rehabilitation | |
| Building better cities | |
| Renewal for competitive cities | |
| Parks, Precincts and the Public Realm | p. 238 |
| Government domains, parklands and commons | |
| Green spaces and squares | |
| Urban parks and the town planning movement | |
| Internal reserves and playgrounds | |
| Recreation reserves, foreshores and lakes | |
| Saving open space | |
| Regional open space | |
| Modern civic and cultural spaces | |
| Town, retail and business centres | |
| Urban design | |
| Environmental design | |
| Conclusion | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 277 |
| Bibliography | p. 288 |
| Index | p. 314 |
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