Collection: Tech Book

The purpose of this project was to consider current usage and descriptions of urban density and to devise definitions which can achieve greater consistency and comparability for a wide range of users across Australia.

Identifies a wide range of drainage and erosion problems which affect urban areas and presents a variety of techniques available for dealing with them.

This series focuses on physical urban design strategies. It concentrates on ideas, information and ways to increase understanding of urban structure and urban form, and to better inform decisions about these elements.

The professional urban designer is distant from the ultimate user, and often at odds with the other actors in the decision-making process. The designer may only implement decisions already made, or may wield substantial power, because of his personal prestige and his ability to frame the terms o...