Product Description This volume describes and analyses aspects of economic development in Australia and its effect on the nation's cities and regions. Some of the topics discussed include the arrival of new technologies, structural adjustment, deregulation, population shifts, and the variations of households.The authors show how the nation's economic geography is being shaped by a range of processes that are leading to the uneven distribution of both people and jobs. About the Author Kevin O'Connor is at Monash University. Robert Stimson is at University of Queensland.