Design for Decline: Landscape Architecture Strategies for the Western Australian Wheatbelt

Kullmann, Karl

doi:10.3368/lj.32.2.243

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“…The projected transfer of public servants to Bathurst-Orange and Albury-Wodonga from Canberra, which itself was a decentralized metropolis, was understandably not wellreceived. 129 With the decline of many agricultural regions, 130 it is not surprising that many of the regional Growth Centres struggled to provide transformative employment gains. Even the relative success story of Albury-Wodonga struggled to generate the required employment to bolster population growth.…”

Section: Economic Growth Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres programme 1972–1975

Bolleter

Freestone

Cameron

et al. 2021

Planning Perspectives

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From 1973 to 1975 a new Australian Government led by Gough Whitlam actively pursued plans to develop regional and sub-metropolitan Growth Centres with significantly boosted populations following a national strategy published in June 1973 which mapped a national coverage of prospective locations. The intention was for these centres to alleviate pressure on the capital cities considered overcrowded and deteriorating in efficiency and quality of life. The controversial dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975 signalled the winding back and effective demise of the programme. This paper examines the population projections for the centres under official consideration to 2000 and their actual growth. Despite the criticisms attached to this programme, several centres came close to achieving their population targets for 2000. Moreover, if Federal Government support had been sustained, more may have exceeded their projections. The implications for a resurgent national settlement policy are considered.

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Section: Economic Growth Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres programme 1972–1975

Bolleter

Freestone

Cameron

et al. 2021

Planning Perspectives

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“…Further, different forms of place-making are referred to in this literature. More deliberate, self-conscious constructions of place that look at the built environment as the primary locus of place-making (Freestone & Liu, 2016) are particularly common in stories of decline (Kullmann, 2013). This paper shifts focus to more non-self-conscious, in-the-background, processes in which place emerges as a mutual construction, simultaneously made by people residing in, and moving through it (Massey, 2005).…”

Section: What Is Place-making?mentioning

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Making place with mobile media: Young people’s blurred place-making in regional Australia

Waite

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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This paper investigates young people living in a regional Australian town and explores the ways that they negotiate place-making using mobile media. Australia has been characterised as a country of vast distances, and young people living in rural and regional areas are at the centre of narratives that position digital technologies as enablers or disruptors. This paper puts such deterministic discourses aside to focus on the ways place is made by young people living outside the city according to their own perspectives and experiences. Focus groups with 62 participants aged 16–28 years pointed to many of those in-the-background place-making practices and signalled the near seamless way that making places was simultaneously done online as well as in material, face-to-face contexts. The forms of place made by the young people of this study comprised a range of elasticised neighbourhoods and public spaces that were materially anchored, though extended digitally through territorially embedded socialities and shared locational information. Regional geographies retained their meaning, though traditional constraints could be renegotiated to reflect youthful relationships with local place.

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“…On the other hand, the complete assimilation of landscape architecture into architecture may risk extinguishing identity and development by reducing the former to a static set of wrote-learnable norms. In this context, the unique attributes of landscape architecture that have proven so effective in difficult contexts-such as population decline (Kullmann 2013) and social and environmental justice-may be eroded. Integration also risks perpetuating the devaluation of landscape architecture to the provision of horticultural or hydrological technical advice to broadschooled total-designers (LAEP 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Disciplinary convergence: landscape architecture and the spatial design disciplines

Kullmann

2016

Journal of Landscape Architecture

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Design for Decline: Landscape Architecture Strategies for the Western Australian Wheatbelt

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres programme 1972–1975

Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres programme 1972–1975

Making place with mobile media: Young people’s blurred place-making in regional Australia

Disciplinary convergence: landscape architecture and the spatial design disciplines

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