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Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia

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Falconer, R.
Newman, Peter
Giles-Corti, B.
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2010
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Falconer, Ryan and Newman, Peter and Giles-Corti, Billie. 2010. Is practice aligned with the principles? Implementing New Urbanism in Perth, Western Australia. Transport Policy. 17 (5): pp. 287-294.
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Transport Policy
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Sustainable Policy Institute (CUSP)
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NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Transport Policy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Transport Policy [17 (5) 2010] DOI 10.1016/j.tranpol.2010.01.014

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New Urbanism is a recent American reform approach to urban development, which attempts to reduce car dependence through traditional design qualities such as connected streets with paths, higher density and mix with local centres. The Western Australian State Government has developed ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’, which is a context-specific design code based on new Urbanist principles. This design code has been applied in the development of several dozen new neighbourhoods in Perth over the last decade. This paper shows that these developments do create more local walking but are no different to conventional suburban development in their regional car dependence. The causes of this are pursued in terms of a gap between principles and practice.