Neil Sipe Editor

Jason Byrne is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning in the Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus, where he has taught since 2006. A geographer, anthropologist and planner by training, Jason’s research interests include: urban nature, parks, green-space, environmental justice and political ecology. Jason previously worked as a planning officer, environmental officer and policy writer with the Western Australian government. Jago Dodson is Director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University, Brisbane. Jago has applied his background in anthropology and urban planning to a raft of urban problems and questions, often with a social or institutional dimension. These include housing, transport and metropolitan planning. Jago teaches a course on Understanding the Australian City in the Urban and Environmental Planning program at Griffith. He has published widely in both academic and public venues. Neil Sipe is the deputy director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University. He currently serves on the Transportation Research Board Ferry Committee and the Social and Economic Effects of Transportation Committee and is the editor of the peer reviewed journal Australian Planner.