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Fig. 2. Suburban Street in North Lakes, 2008 (photo: M. Guaralda).
ally young families, while young professionals commonly opt for units in the city centre (Pancholi et al., 2015). Different parts of the city accommodate people at different stages of their lives. This pattern houses internal as well as external migrations directing newcomers towards specific urban areas. The effects of serial planning, adoption of stereotype dwellings and high population mobility in the long term have caused resilience issues for Australian cities (Guaralda, Kowalik, 2012). The lack of a strong sense of place in new suburbs, a strong attachment to a locale, has generated communities that are not strong or interconnected enough to face challenges of a changing economy and society (Shearer, Walters, 2014). There is a deep contrast between rural towns where communities are really close and dense urban areas where, as in other world metropolis, people rarely know their neighbours and can rely on strong resilient networks. As a way