This conference from 7-10 February 2010 explored past and future approaches to managing and designing for growth, development and decline. This goes far beyond debates over density, frontier development and renewal. It includes new fields of historical, policy and social research which may inform discussion of heritage, growth, environmental, economic and other issues on the questions of the extent and development of urban form.
David Nichols is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He previously worked as features editor of the Australian edition of Smash Hits, and his music writing has appeared in a wide range of periodicals in the USA, Great Britain, and Australia.