Operationalisation of sustainable development through case study of TOD suburbs in Brisbane

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ABSTRACT

Sustainable development is probably one of the most often used phrases that policy makers are using to deliver their ideas of how cities should be developed today, but by what exactly do they mean? The rise of the concept sustainable development and the frequency they have been used is arguably at the highest level we have ever seen to the extent that it is a phrase that every document “must” have regarding planning and policymaking. This research has made an effort to study whether we could operationalize sustainable development through Transit Oriented Development (TOD), with the case study of Brisbane, Australia. This research had applied the case study methodology and used both primary and secondary methods of research to gather data and analyse data. This research has discovered that TOD had played a very good role in the achieving sustainable development in Brisbane, Australia.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND CHARTSVIII

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Introduction1

1.2 Background of the study1

1.3 Aims and objectives of the research3

1.4 Research questions3

1.5 Significance of the study4

1.6 Expected Contributions and Limitations6

CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW8

2.1 The history of urban planning8

2.2 Assessment of Sustainable Development9

2.3 Drivers of sustainable development policies12

2.4 Need for sustainability14

2.4.1 How places might move towards sustainability15

2.5 Transit Orientated Developments (TODs)16

CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY19

3.1 Introduction21

3.2 Research design23

3.3 Population and sampling24

3.3.1 Population24

3.3.2 Sampling frame24

3.3.4 Sample25

3.4 An overview of the case study methodology25

3.5 Justification of research method28

3.6 Rationale for applying qualitative case study methodology research design30

3.7 Focus of the ...