Business as Unusual
Radical Ideas for Cities
$51.90
- Paperback
194 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2025
Summary
When planning thinking collapses into prescriptive dogma, it becomes challenging to imagine alternatives to business as usual and possible innovations wither on the vine. Our reaction to out-of-control climate change, mass species extinction and the fracturing of a once egalitarian society is that we build new suburbs like before, just tighter and meaner. This hostile fabric is stranded in the gulf between being leafy and suburban and truly urban and lively. Instead, it is neither and, as suc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760803308 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760803308 |
| Author: | Julian Bolleter |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 194 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 358mm x 211mm |
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About The Author
Julian Bolleter
Julian Bolleter is the Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia, the Program Director of AUDRC’s Master of Urban Design course, and an author and public figure. Julian leads an ambitious climate adaptation project, ‘Future climate, future home: adaptive urban design strategies for WA’ with AUDRC partner organisations Development WA, the Department of Communities, the Western Australian Planning Commission, and multiple Local Governments. He has received a stream of awards for his research, including the UWA School of Design’s Mid-Career Research Award in 2023.
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