Industrial Restructuring and the Metropolitan Fringe: Growth and Disadvantage in Western Sydney

Fagan, Bob

doi:10.1080/07293682.1986.9657290

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“…On the other hand increasing emphasis is placed on local initiatives: 'bottomup' programmes of economic development and social self-help run by local government, singly or in regional groupings (Fagan 1986;Sandercock 1985) and increased local control over land-use. The new 1982 Planning Act in South Australia gives greater autonomy t o local councils, regional economic development bodies have been set up within the metropolitan area, and local government authorities have become increasingly active in the provision of human services.…”

Section: Implications For Urban Policymentioning

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Economic Restructuring, Urban Policy and Patterns of Deprivation in Adelaide

Forster

1986

Australian Planner

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Section: Implications For Urban Policymentioning

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Economic Restructuring, Urban Policy and Patterns of Deprivation in Adelaide

Forster

1986

Australian Planner

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“…Regardless of the origin of geography's contemporary and historical concern with spatial differentiation, there has been concern with western Sydney's socio-economic difference and the inherent inequity in access to economic opportunities this generates (Fagan 1986a;Fagan 1986b;Blakely and Fagan, 1988). These commentators have noted the structural disadvantage experienced in western Sydney, including the relationship between lower levels of labour market skills and specialisation and higher levels of unemployment, especially during a recessed economic climate.…”

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“…More established areas of western Sydney have also experienced a relative shortage of service provision, even during times when the financial restraints on the public sector were not extreme (Fagan, 1986a). The provision of health care facilities throughout the Sydney region, for example, has not matched changes in the distribution of population (Donald, 1981).…”

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Disadvantage and ‘Otherness' in Western Sydney

Hodge

1996

Australian Geographical Studies

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The construction of western Sydney as Sydney's ‘other’ has played a role in its historic underprovision of human services compared to the Sydney region as a whole. Issues of difference, disadvantage, identity and the representations of western Sydney are analysed for their contribution to its provision of services, with planning for higher education given as an example. Some service provision decisions seem to based on a notion of innate disadvantage rather than disadvantage brought about by structural inequities. These structural inequities include the historical underprovision of human services. An understanding of the ‘othering’ of western Sydney is necessary in order to prevent a vicious cycle of underprovision and disadvantage arising in the future.

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“…Research is only just beginning on the impacts of industrial restructuring within Australian metropolitan centres. Here, people in both inner suburbs and the metropolitan fringes have borne a disproportionate share of the social and economic costs of restructuring (Stilwell with Larcombe, 1981;Cardew et al, 1984;Cole et al, 1984;Fagan, 1986b).…”

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Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

Wilde¹,

Fagan²

1988

Australian Geographical Studies

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The study of Australia's industrial geography effectively dates from the 1950s with the collation of systematic information on individual industries. The 1960s saw a burgeoning and an increasing sophistication of the geographical literature, much of it by a relatively small group of researchers. The growth in the number of industrial geographers in universities and colleges from the late 1960s brought new perspectives to research and swelled the volume of literature during the 70s and 80s. Throughout the entire period industrial geographers in Australia have largely devoted themselves to a study of Australian issues, in part because of the rich and scarcely touched topics that presented themselves and in part from a feeling of responsibility to investigate pertinent political, social and economic issues. Recently, these studies have been increasingly set in the context of the Pacific and global economies, as the particular circumstances influencing Australian industrial geography forced researchers to consider international influences and relationships before those in some other nations (Thrift, 1985). This has given an international significance to recent Australian work and a distinctly Antipodean contribution to the new industrial geography of the 1980s.The hallmark of industrial geography over this quarter of a century has been its dynamism. As in other social sciences, there have been major paradigm shifts as a result of both the mounting criticism of the prevailing orthodoxy from within the discipline, and the dramatic social, economic and political change within the society being studied. The 1950s and 60s were marked by the relatively stable external environment of the 'long boom' and industrial geographers in Australia, as elsewhere in the world, were primarily concerned to establish a statement of industrial structure and distributions and to grapple with theoretical frameworks and criticisms of them from within the discipline. The 1970s, in contrast, saw the transformation of these foundations as the crisis in Australia and the world demanded new and broader theoretical and empirical approaches to industrial and regional studies. In keeping with these major stages in the subject's evolution. this paper will first explore the evolution of industrial geography during the long boom of the 50s and 60s. and then examine the major themes which have assumed importance since the mid-1970s.Department of Geography, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas., 7001 and School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University. North Rydc, NSW. 21 13.

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Industrial Restructuring and the Metropolitan Fringe: Growth and Disadvantage in Western Sydney

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Economic Restructuring, Urban Policy and Patterns of Deprivation in Adelaide

Economic Restructuring, Urban Policy and Patterns of Deprivation in Adelaide

Disadvantage and ‘Otherness' in Western Sydney

Industrial Geography: Restructuring in theory and practice

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