Research Area: Land use and development, Population, Governance and Planning

Research team: Beer, A., Crommelin, L., Vij, A., Dodson, J., Dühr, S. and Pinnegar, S.  

Overview

This Inquiry examines the capacity of Australia’s smaller cities to assist in managing population growth, including international and national migration; and provides advice on which policy instruments and programs are most likely to redirect population movements to these places. The Inquiry comprises a number of projects: 

Final Report: Beer, A., Crommelin, L., Vij, A., Dodson, J., Dühr, S. and Pinnegar, S. (2022) Growing Australia’s smaller cities to better manage population growth, AHURI Final Report No. 386, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne. 

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Project A: Li, T., Denham, T., Dodson, J. and Vij, A. (2022) The economic dynamics and population change of Australia’s regional cities, AHURI Final Report No. 385, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne. 

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Project B: Vij, A., Ardeshiri, A., Li, T., Beer, A. and Crommelin, L. (2022) Understanding what attracts new residents to smaller cities, AHURI Final Report No. 375, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne. 
Project C: No-one from CMVI 

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