Planners in Australia are finding innovative ways to deal with the same kinds of issues common throughout North America: growth pressures; how to evaluate and visualize proposed change; where best to invest natural resource funding; and how best to engage the public.

Terrain staff contributed information, pictures and maps to this journal article which is available on the US website http://placeways.com/communityviz/gallery/casestudies.php.

For the article itself, click here.  There are a number of case studies - Mission Beach is twards the end of the article.