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The spatial and productivity implications of AI disruption

Insights Community Infrastructure Employment Housing Transport

Planning for growth: when to use housing capacity targets and when to use projections

Insights Housing

Housing builds neighbourhoods. Employment lands keep cities working.

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SGS Economics and Planning Value of Markets

The value of municipal markets

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Community Infrastructure, Employment, Retail

Understanding the value of municipal markets and the businesses they create matters for two decisions: whether to continue investing in them and whether to open new municipal markets in communities across Australia.

SGS Economics and Planning Data Centres Article

From cloud to concrete: The planner’s role in data centres

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Community Infrastructure, Employment, Environment

Every swipe, tap and click runs through a data centre. We check the weather, scan the news, load a map — and somewhere, a building full of servers does the work. The question planners have a role in is where the buildings should go and who benefits.

SGS Economics and Planning Port Enfield

Growing Community Wealth Building in Port Adelaide Enfield

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For Purpose

City of Port Adelaide Enfield is undergoing rapid growth. It has a diverse, productive business base, strong anchor institutions, and an unprecedented wave of inbound investment on the way, creating real opportunity for Community Wealth Building and other new approaches to economic development to benefit people, place and planet.

SGS Economics and Planning POS2026

Public open space contributions in Victoria: A preferred approach

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Open Space

Access to public open space across Melbourne could decline by almost 25% over the next two decades unless the way councils fund parks and open space changes.

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Community Wealth Building: What will it take?

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For Purpose

If Community Wealth Building offers a pathway to more inclusive and resilient local economies, what stands in the way of its more widespread adoption as a model of local economic development?

SGS Economics and Planning Local Gov Worker2

Improving financial sustainability in Australian local government

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Australians rely on local governments to deliver the everyday services and support that strengthen communities. However, the local government sector’s financial sustainability is under increasing strain.

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