Introduction -- PART I: Peri-urban concepts, policy and practice -- 1 Understanding the peri-urban -- City and countryside -- Concept of the peri-urban landscape -- Cities, place and scale -- Spatial scale -- Temporal scale -- 2 Conceptualising peri-urban regions -- Towards a peri-urban theory -- Urban-rural continuum -- Spatial relationships -- Production and consumption -- Counter-urbanisation -- Structure and function in peri-urban analysis -- Peri-urban resilience -- 3 Planning and policy for peri-urban protection -- Constraining the city: green belts and urban edges -- Emergence of green belts as policy and practice -- UK green belt policy -- Land use and the green belt: multi-purpose or homogeneous land uses -- Urban growth boundaries -- Approaches to green belt protection -- 4 Land markets, land supply and price and the peri-urban fringe -- Land supply, demand and price -- An integrated approach to land supply -- Location and land price -- Developer interest -- Spatial planning and peri-urban land value -- 5 Regionalism and peri-urban development -- Thinking regionally about the peri-urban -- Australian regionalism -- Regions and the sequencing of change -- Rural-residential development -- Urbanisation, land subdivision and agriculture -- 6 Liveable peri-urban spaces -- Concept of liveability -- Rural amenity and well-being -- Risk and liveability -- Inundation and sea level rise -- Bushfire risk -- Climate change and risk -- Liveability and adaptation -- Liveability on the metropolitan fringe -- PART II: Peri-urban issues: an Australian context -- 7 Australian green belts -- Policy context -- Sydney green belt -- Adelaide green belt -- Melbourne green belt -- Lessons from the Australian green belt experience -- 8 Population change in peri-urban Australia.

Australia's population geography and the place of peri-urban regions -- Conceptualising the social processes of change -- Australian regions and population change -- Peri-urban case studies -- Population trends -- Age and migration -- Commuting and work -- Housing and households -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Peri-urban agriculture -- Vulnerability and threat -- Australian agricultural change -- Positioning peri-urban farming -- Impacts of urbanisation on production -- Why peri-urban agriculture is important -- 10 Biodiversity, natural resources and peri-urban regions -- Importance of biodiversity -- Urban and peri-urban biodiversity -- Natural resource values and peri-urban catchment management -- Peri-urban land tenure -- Rethinking land use -- 11 The practice of peri-urban planning -- Importance of spatial planning -- Case studies: peri-urban regions -- Planning for growth -- Planning to prevent growth -- Integrated planning -- Conclusion: peri-urban futures -- References -- Index.