Data for: "Urban Growth Strategy in Greater Sydney Leads to Unintended Social and Environmental Challenges"

A dataset of the manuscript "Urban Growth Strategy in Greater Sydney Leads to Unintended Social and Environmental Challenges", paper published in Nature Cities. The NVivo files contain all variables and causal relationships among the variables supported by quotations coded from the 1968, 2005 and 2018 urban planning reports in Greater Sydney. (1) Sydney region: outline plan, 1970-2000 A.D – a strategy for development published by the NSW State Planning Authority; (2) City of Cities. A plan for Sydney's Future published by the NSW Department of Planning; and (3) A Metropolis of Three Cities – connecting people published by Greater Sydney Commission.