30 Years of collecting

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Murdoch University Library has been actively collecting in the broad area of City Policy since 1975 and City Policy streams are offered in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Particular impetus for these courses came with the establishment of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) in 1988. The Library’s collections have been developed to support these courses.

The ISTP is a very productive research organization with high academic output in the form of books, reports, conference papers and refereed journal articles in print and/or electronic format. As you will see in the Display, publications of ISTP academics are well represented, although only those in print format are on display.

City Policy at Murdoch University focuses on current policy issues in the urban environment, both globally and locally. Overall the Library aims to keep up with key publication in this field. Specific areas of focus include the following:

Cities and Sustainability - The expansion of publication in this area has been notable.
Transport planning - Murdoch University’s Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy is at the forefront of publication on issues relating to automobile dependence and its associated problems and solutions.
social capital and social exclusion
inequalities between and within cities
water and waste management issues
creativity and the role of culture in city revitalization
the interplay between city technology, professional practice and community values

1975	Cities for Sale ; Property, Politics and Urban Planning in Australia SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 711.40994 SAN 1975
1976	A Nation of City Dwellers SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.760994 H219 1
1977	Urban Development in Australia SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 309.2620994 N497 1
1978	Australian Cities and Public Policy SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 711.40994 AUS
1979	Residential Crowding in Urban America SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 304.610973B175
1980	Making Cities Work: the Dynamics of Urban Innovation SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 309.262 M235 1
1981	Equity in the City SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.760994 EQU 1981
1982	Why Cities Change : Urban Development & Economic Change in Sydney SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 330.9441063 W629
1983	City Station Precinct : Urban Design Study SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 711.5522099 P468
1984	Motor Vehicle Emissions Inventories: A Review of Methodology, Applications and Potential for Australian Cities SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 380.5072094 M974 1 v.8404
1985	Living in Cities : Urbanism and Society in Metropolitan Australia SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.760994 LIV 1985
1986	Urban Planning in Australia : Critical Readings SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.120994 URB 1986
1987	Does Free Flowing Traffic Save Energy and Lower Emissions in Cities SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 380.5072094 M974 1 8706
1988	Asian Urbanization : Problems and Processes SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.76095 ASI
1989	Cities and Automobile Dependence: A Sourcebook SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 388.41 NEW
1990	Transport Energy Conservation Policies for Australian Cities : Strategies for Reducing Automobile Dependence SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 333.796817 NEW
1991	Towards Better Cities : Reurbanisation and Transport Energy Scenarios SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 388.4042 MCG 1991
1992	Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 363.7009173 SUS
1993	Spirited Cities: Urban Planning, Traffic and Environmental Management in the Nineties SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.760994 SPI
1994	A Vision for a Greener City : the Role of Vegetation in Urban Environments SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 333.770994 NAT 1994
1995	Australian Cities: Issues, Strategies and Policies for Urban Australia in the 1990s SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.760994 AUS 1995
1996	Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.76 GRA 1996
1997	‘Car-Free’ Copenhagen : Perspectives and Ideas for Reducing Car Dependence in Copenhagen SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 711.4094891 CAR 1997
1998	Megacities, Labour & Communications SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.76 MEG 1998
1999	Sustainability and Cities : Overcoming Automobile Dependence SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 388.4 NEW 1999
2000	Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.1216094 BEA 2000
2001	Back on Track: Rethinking Transport Policy in Australia and New Zealand SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 388.0994 BAC 2001
2002	Building the Ecological City SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.1216 WHI 2002
2003	The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy & Practice SOUTH WING LEVEL 4 388 EAR 2003
2004	City of Quarters : Urban Villages in the Contemporary City SOUTH WING LEVEL 1 307.76 CIT 2004
2005	Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities: Australia ’s Urban Challenge SOUTH WING LEVEL 2 711.40994 MCM 2005

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