Learning from the Edge: An Inquiry into the Peri-urban Territory of Perth

This thesis presents research regarding the peri-urban territory of Perth, Western Australia. This study's aim was to introduce an alternative reading of Perth's urban processes, through the lenses of landscape architecture. This study was underpinned by a hybrid, mixed-method approach that combines planning and design epistemologies and methods to reveal the spatial and temporal landscape structure of the territory across a sixty-year period. Its relevance lies in the way metropolitan planning policies that integrate, visualise and communicate a critical socio-ecological landscape perspective in decision making, could provide opportunities for societies to shape metropolitan regions in more sustainable ways.