This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles ¿
environmental societal and economic ¿ that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from
these relative failures are important because if projections for Australiäs 21st century
population growth are borne out we will need to build new cities this century. This is
particularly the case in northern Australia where the federal government projects a four-fold
increase in population in the next four decades. The book aims that when we commence 21st
century new city dreaming we have learnt from the mistakes of the past and are not doomed to
repeat them.
