Community is not just about place; it is also about relationships. But the suburbs we are designing in NSW encourage neither the building of relationships nor ecological sustainability. Government planners both here and overseas have a simplistic solution to these problems: increase densities. 

The problem of "planning tension" caused by Government policies which are not necessarily what local government - or the people of NSW - want.

This paper presents a way of relieving this tension, as well as of strengthening community, providing better planning outcomes, and creating more sustainable cities.

1. Executive Summary
2. The search for community
3. The new urbanism
4. '...vibrant dense communities'
5. Lessons from Vancouver
6. A better way of Living
7. Recommendations