How National Planning Might Enrich Metropolitan Planning in Australia

Bunker, Raymond; Ruming, Kristian

doi:10.1080/08111146.2010.485312

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“…According to the AMCORD guidelines, a performance planning system focuses on the substantive matters to be addressed without specifying in detail how that will be achieved. More recently, national planning initiatives such as the Development Assessment Forum and the National Objective and Criteria for Future Strategic Planning of Capital Cities have further reinforced the need for a performance-based planning reform agenda (Bunker & Ruming, 2010).…”

Section: The Australian Land-use Planning Contextmentioning

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Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Steele

Ruming

2012

Planning Practice and Research

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Within the planning literature, the distinction between regulatory planning and strategic spatial planning has exposed a recurring dichotomy that exists between the idea of 'conforming' (regulative certainty) and 'performing' (strategic flexibility) plans and planning systems. This paper critically examines the divergent trajectories of land-use policy and regulation in two Australian states, Queensland and New South Wales. This paper concludes by arguing that the flexibility/certainty dilemma is something of an artifice-a land-use planning shibboleth-that serves to distract professional and scholarly attention away from substantive issues such as how planning might better engender more sustainable urban settlements.

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Section: The Australian Land-use Planning Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Steele

Ruming

2012

Planning Practice and Research

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“…Following the election of a federal Labor government in 2007, Australian cities received greater attention due to renewed national interest in planning policy (Bunker and Ruming, ). At this level, the desire for ‘global’ status for Australian cities came in response to changing global economic conditions, with cities seen as crucial generators of economic growth and as globalized nodes connecting the national economy to international markets (Department of Infrastructure and Transport, ; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 2011).…”

Section: Global Sydney and Strategic Planningmentioning

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Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans

Baker

Ruming

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article critically examines the expression of global spatial imaginaries in urban policy and planning. Following recent calls to understand how the global is 'made up' in and through cities, we argue for the usefulness of Roy and Ong's concept of 'worlding'. By analysing how strategic spatial plans envisage 'Global Sydney', the article reveals a constitutive spatial imaginary informed by the articulation of three interrelated elements: global city standards, comparative techniques and extra-local policy models. Unpacking how cities are selectively worlded through spatial imaginaries, the article advances an approach to urban globality as actively cultivated and differentially produced.We wish to thank Pauline McGuirk for her incisive comments on an earlier draft; Tom Baker gratefully acknowledges her guidance as doctoral supervisor. We also thank the three anonymous IJURR reviewers, whose suggestions helped clarify the article. The article benefited from feedback provided at the Institute of Australian Geographers (Sydney, 2012) and Urban Affairs Association (San Francisco, 2013) conferences.

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“…Socio-economic inequality and disadvantage has not been addressed through planning systems (Campbell and Fainstein, 1996). State and local authority planners in Australia have tended to perpetuate the lack of diversity and regulations have been manipulated to exclude less affluent residents through building height restrictions, low-density mandates and minimum land size requirements (Bunker and Ruming, 2010;Gurran et al, 2018;Hopkins, 2010). Housing and ageing theories in Australia suggest that older people prefer to remain in their own homes and the aged pension system is based on the premise that they will be mortgage-free upon retirement (Lowies et al, 2020;Olsberg et al, 2004;Productivity Commission, 2015).…”

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Manufactured housing parks: could their residents be buyers of the property?

Bunce

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to explore the possibility of people living in manufactured housing parks in Australia to collectively buy the property at fair market value and convert it into a resident owned community co-operative.Design/methodology/approachThe methodological approach is based on 20 interviews with occupants of resident owned communities (ROCs) and key informants in the USA state of New Hampshire. Residents' interviews provide an understanding of the motivations to want to own and self-manage the property.FindingsThe findings suggest that, based on USA experience and the availability of enabling financial structures, Australian residential park residents could be keen buyers of manufactured housing park properties.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of this research was the small number of interviewees who were mainly people in ROC leadership positions and advocates. Another limitation was that no specific investigation was made to gauge manufactured housing park (MHP) residents' level of demand for ROCs in Australia. Although there was some evidence of support, further Australia-wide enquiry is needed.Practical implicationsThe sale of MHPs to resident co-operatives could become a new component of the property market in Australia and residents entering the market as buyers may cause a shift in market forces.Social implicationsROCs would offer greater diversity of housing choice and might further inform decision-makers of seniors and retirees' future intentions. Downsizers moving to ROCs could potentially increase the savings nest egg through the sale of the family home which will also free-up conventional housing for better utilisation by younger cohorts.Originality/valueOwners of residential parks are unlikely to have considered the tenants as potential buyers of the property, but, envisaging, ROCs could become a new type of tenure for Australians aged over 50 years.

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How National Planning Might Enrich Metropolitan Planning in Australia

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans

Manufactured housing parks: could their residents be buyers of the property?

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