In 2011, the city of Ipswich published a 20-year economic development plan.  It forecast the addition of 292,000 new residents, who will require an additional 120,000 jobs, and will live in a network of distinct communities interwoven with centers of employment, recreational facilities and green space.  The plan responded to future challenges but also to past ones. Because Ipswich offered affordable housing and an attractive lifestyle, its population was growing rapidly in the booming economy of 21^st Century Australia.  Yet the decline of industrial employment in the 70s and 80s had left the city with legacy of long-term unemployment and bred unacceptable levels of crime and social dislocation.