Handbook

City Building: Transport and Infrastructure explores the complex relationship between transport and land use planning, and critically examines the role of transport infrastructure considerations within strategic and statutory plans. It delves into topics that have been longstanding areas of interest for city planners: understanding mobility patterns, ensuring appropriate transport infrastructure, and optimising the benefits to local communities and the wider city. In doing so, you will come to appreciate the role that urban infrastructure projects play in the broader process of ‘city building’. Planners need a range of skills to tie these large financial (and political) commitments more coherently to considerations of city productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and equity. The ongoing pipeline of major transport infrastructure projects in Australian cities offers an excellent lens through which to consider the increasingly integrative role planners play in key city shaping activities which have social, economic and environmental impacts, as well as mobility outcomes.