Our urban areas are always in transition, where economic trends, population and demographic changes play out temporally, spatially, functionally and structurally. The currency of our cities and precincts is the supply and demand for land – public and private. As such, there is no one pathway, approach or set of initiatives to guide decisions.

Each situation needs to respond to the existing specific conditions. Each poses a multitude of questions that challenge governments or developers as they seek to make decisions affecting places, precincts, and people. Responses require an ability to make sense of bottom up and top-down themes, drivers, supply, demand, costs and returns.