Consuming the Urban Environment . A Study of the Factors that Influence Resource Use in Australian Cities

该项目是第一个旨在量化澳大利亚不断加速的总消费中有多少是被设计到我们的城市和住房中的，有多少与家庭的自由支配行为以及驱动这种行为的一系列态度和价值观有关的研究。由此产生的知识将为各级政府和行业制定政策和项目提供一个目前缺乏的基于证据的平台，以便有效和公平地减少资源消耗。影响的关键群体包括：个人消费者和家庭、住房设计师（与密度有关）、材料、城市社区的电器规划者(例如；公共交通，土地利用组合水平)。

This project is the first study which aims to quantify how much of Australia's accelerating total consumption is designed into our cities and housing and how much is related to a household's discretionary behaviour and the sets of attitudes and values that drive it.The resulting knowledge will provide an evidence-based platform - that is currently lacking - for policy and program development by all tiers of government and industry to target areas where resource consumption can be effectively and equitably wound back. Key groups for influence include: individual consumers and households, housing designers (in relation to density, materials, appliances planners of urban communities(eg. public transport,level of land use mix).