Our Swedish ways.(environmental management)

Ecos;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......for Sustainable Cities'. Touring Australian cities earlier this year, the concept's...partnership began in the late 1990s, Australian cities have been turning a bit 'Swedish...some, but Ulf Ranhagen believes that Australian cities such as Perth, Adelaide and Sydney...

(book review)

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...P. Troy (ed.) Australian Cities: Issues, Strategies and Policies...emerges as a major theme of Australian Cities. The book aims to provide...growth and functioning of Australian cities' at a time when `the old verities...

No more accidental cities.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 8, 2002 ;     197 words ......Property Australia ABIX via COMTEX) -- An Australian cities policy needs to be developed soon. Such...Sydney Olympics. As an adjunct to an Australian Cities Policy, an Australian Cities Commission should be created. It would...

Pipe dreams and ideologues: values and planning.

People and Place;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Strategies in all Australian cities are trying to facilitate urban...that have been developed for Australian cities and was involved in three...part of the current plans in Australian cities. The SGS survey concluded...

Transport balance a key to sustainability.(Brief Article)

Australasian Business Intelligence;  February 15, 2005 ;     143 words ......Update - ABIX via COMTEX) Car dependence in Australian cities must be reduced. According to Professor Peter...Western Australia Sustainability Roundtable, Australian cities are among the world's highest consumers of transport...

Fed: New warships named after Australian cities

AAP General News (Australia);  January 20, 2006 ;     200 words ......01-20-2006 Fed: New warships named after Australian cities CANBERRA, Jan 20 AAP - Australia...Warfare Destroyers will be named after Australian cities with close links to navy heritage...said. "Naming of the ships after Australian cities will hopefully build on these links...

Apartment boom challenges Kings Squash.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  May 13, 2003 ;     152 words ......COMTEX) The fears that the apartment boom will transform Australian cities into versions of Manhattan are way off the mark. Manhattan...area of King's Cross in which 18,127 people live. Other Australian cities are much less populated, with Melbourne's most densely...

Thousands gather in Australia's major cities for further protests against...

AP Worldstream;  March 23, 2003 ;     354 words ......Australia Thousands of people again joined peace rallies in Australian cities Sunday calling for an end to the war in Iraq and pleading...15-16 when more than half a million people marched in Australian cities. All opposition parties have condemned Howard for his participation...

Margin, short selling, and lotteries in experimental asset markets.

Southern Economic Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Prior laboratory studies have examined price bubbles in experimental markets with a standard...asset, to compare the occurrence of price bubbles across the two assets. In addition...characteristics, we re-examine whether price bubbles are moderated by two institutional...

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEMBER FREDERIC S. MISHKIN DELIVERS...

Political Transcript Wire;  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......periodically been subject to asset price bubbles -- pronounced increases in asset prices...we should respond to possible asset price bubbles. I will first focus on the conceptual...following three questions: * Are some asset price bubbles more problematic than others? * How...

Fed: Democrats initiate water inquiry

AAP General News (Australia);  April 5, 2001 ;     162 words ......initiate water inquiry The high rate of water consumption in Australian cities will come under the spotlight in a Senate inquiry into...LYN ALLISON says water is the major resource consumed in Australian cities but people use it like there's a limitless supply. She...

FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEMBER FREDERIC S. MISHKIN FEDERAL...

Washington Transcript Service;  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......periodically been subject to asset price bubbles -- pronounced increases in asset prices...we should respond to possible asset price bubbles. I will first focus on the conceptual...following three questions: * Are some asset price bubbles more problematic than others? * How...

Housing costs built on land premiums.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  March 20, 2002 ;     211 words ......Australian ABIX via COMTEX) -- The increasing cost of land in Australian cities has been documented. In 2002, a report on this was compiled...of land is the key reason for increased house prices in Australian cities over the last 10 years. This is especially true in Sydney...

GOVERNOR MISHKIN SPEAK AT WHARTON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS CENTER, OLIVER...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Should We Respond to Asset Price Bubbles? Over the centuries, economies...periodically been subject to asset price bubbles-pronounced increases in asset...should respond to possible asset price bubbles.1 I will first focus on the...

Fed: Some Australian cities welcome in New Year's with rain

AAP General News (Australia);  December 31, 2006 ;     394 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 12-31-2006 Fed: Some Australian cities welcome in New Year's with rain Several Australian cities have started their New Year's celebrations with much needed rain. But the rain and storms did not stop hundreds of...