The Promise of the City: Adventures in learning cities and higher education

... We had become radicalised during the rise of urban policy in Labor's opposition program, and now we were working for them in government ...

As a technocrat in the Whitlam government, David Wilmoth was never an average urban planner. Australia was in desperate need of structural reform to lift opportunities for the disadvantaged. In David's view, urban strategy had to encompass infrastructure and economic development in a way that reflected the aspirations of the Australian people, not ju...