SEGRA (Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia) thirteenth national conference, 27-29 October 2009, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, WA [CD ROM]

Author: SEGRA (Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia)

Papers presented include: Climate Change and the Green Revolution: what's in it for regional Australia -- Emissions Trading: an economic business perspective -- Sustainable Mining Futures and the Liveability of Mining Villages -- Delivering and Supporting Indigenous Participation in Regional Development -- Townsville: a regional development case study -- Infrastructure Australia and Smart Sustainable Regions.

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Building an efficient national roads system (journal article)
by Max Lay
from ATSE Focus August/September 2009
"We tend to forget how permanent roads are and how ongoing are the benefits and disbenefits that they createRoads are an integral part of our nation's infrastructure. British colonisation in 1788 brought with it the requirement that every piece of subdivided land had to have land access via a public right-of-way. The land was often grudgingly given and was rarely part of any grander transport plan. Thus, almost from the beginning, governments have had to step in and impose a grander vision beyond the farm-to-market needs of individual land owners.
Another major problem has been our inability to control, let alone predict, future land use. State governments need to be much better in the way in which they match land-use controls with economic and social strategies at one extreme and transport plans at the other.Thus, road planning must allow for a range of future scenarios, as today's assumptions and passionately held views are quite likely to be proved wrong. To avoid past parochialism, planning for any new road system must also be done at a level above the immediate region affected by the planning."

The Best New Ideas in Business
by Paul Keegan
from Fortune, Vol 160, No 5 14 September 2009
"The article focuses on the company Zipcar, a car-sharing service. Zipcars are available in several U.S. cities, including Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, California, and New York City, as well as in Britain. Scott Griffith, chief executive officer for Zipcar, said that the company will turn a profit in the third quarter of 2009. "

Projects Queensland [CD ROM / journal]

Author: Queensland. Dept of Infrastructure & Planning

"Outlines 603 projects with total values of more than $30 million. The publication lists all the projects under study, committed to and under construction, as well as those that were completed between April 2007 & June 2008." - introduction.

Cultural Events as Potential Drivers of Urban Regeneration: An Empirical Illustration (journal article)
by M. Paiola
from Industry & Innovation, Vol. 15, No 5, October 2008, pages 513 - 529
In this paper the relational dimension of cultural production is explored, with explicit attention to the impact of cultural events on networks and creativity in local contexts. Three qualitative empirical cases are produced, showing that networks have a crucial importance in sustaining spatial proximity-based creativity. Three models of local cultural events are identified and valued qualitatively in terms of their impact on local creativity, concluding that the value of an event in its territory is dependent on the organizational frame of the specific event. In particular, the bottom-up network-based model appears to be able to favour local activation and creativity spanning, thereby leveraging local resources.

Who’s your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life [book]

Author: Richard Florida

"Shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region - is the real driver of the global economy ... [and] provides detailed rankings of the best places to live for every major stage of life." - cover.

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