Managing the transition to a more compact city in Australia

Bunker, Raymond; Crommelin, Laura; Troy, Laurence; Easthope, Hazel; Pinnegar, Simon; Randolph, Bill

doi:10.1080/13563475.2017.1298435

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“…Required by national government to develop a 20-year vision for land-use management and preservation as part of enhanced community participation (Ruming, 2018), the 2036 vision document represents a deliberate attempt to simplify and clarify the planning process. It forms part of a process to re-calibrate the political economy-associated urban consolidation and compactness of the past two decades, which saw multi-players, especially in the private sector, dominate the discourse and development agenda and squeeze out opportunities for communities to be active in the planning process (Bunker et al, 2017; Ruming and Goodman, 2016).…”

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“…The city council’s vision is a departure from the orthodoxy of national metropolitan planning, which for the last two decades has focused on producing monocentric compact cities (Bunker et al, 2017; Limb et al, 2018; Randolph, 2006). The physical development of a polycentric linear city involves regulating land-use types and intensities strategically distributed around hierarchical transit lines and nodes to create clustered centres.…”

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The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities

Rogerson

Giddings

2020

Urban Studies

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Recent debates over the content and theoretical orientation of urban studies act as a strong reminder that the nature and existence of the city as a form of spatial urban agglomeration is changing. They have acted positively as a heuristic to inspire critical analysis of urbanisation and helped to illuminate the considerable empirical variation over time and space in urban agglomeration forms. However, in shifting the focus onto the planetary reach of urbanisation, such debates risk deflecting attention away from the city core at a time when it too is being subjected to transformation. The city centre has been taken for granted as critical attention has been given to the impact of development and enterprise in extending the city outwards. The recent proliferation of public and policy interest in the future of the city centre as the archetypal expression of urban agglomeration has not been matched by similar growth in academic and theoretical accounts of its transformation. Drawing on the examples of two city centres, and placing them in the context of the recent debates of urban agglomeration theory, this article seeks to initiate deeper analysis and dialogue about the future of the urban core, including how it is being articulated and by whom. It argues for a greater analytic understanding of the ways in which the city centre as a physical and emotional entity has been so resilient, and advocates for stronger engagement with initiatives seeking to reactivate the city centre as a crucial epicentre of urban agglomeration.

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Section: The Two Local Contextsmentioning

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The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities

Rogerson

Giddings

2020

Urban Studies

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“…However, the opportunity is being lost: these areas are undergoing significant but piecemeal intensification despite planning regulations intended to prevent 'over-development'. Furthermore, development is often inadequately integrated with good transport and service access, community facilities and private and public open space (Bunker, Crommelin et al 2017).…”

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The potential of new technologies to disrupt housing policy

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Sharam³

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AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians.Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. AcknowledgementsThis material was produced with funding from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. AHURI Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible.

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“…Planning agencies work on the one hand to improve the quality of places to live (Healey, 2010), while on the other hand they are assessed based on how well they facilitate investments in property development (Bunker et al, 2017;Schuetz, Giuliano, & Shin, 2018). Investments in property development can contribute to the quality of places, for example by resulting in good quality housing.…”

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Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

Altes

2019

European Planning Studies

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Planning is assessed not only based on its ability to improve the living environment through place making, but also based on its role in facilitating investments in the built environment. This paper approaches the combination of these functions as planning for multiple land use. Contracts, rather than plans, are used to bridge these functions. This concept of multiple land use is used to reflect on the contributions in this special issue on regulation of private sector involvement and property market dynamics in urban development. Questions for further research are raised based on the concepts of legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency. These questions can also be used to assess current planning practice in which private sector investment and place making are combined.

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Managing the transition to a more compact city in Australia

Cited by 23 publications

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The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities

The future of the city centre: Urbanisation, transformation and resilience – a tale of two Newcastle cities

The potential of new technologies to disrupt housing policy

Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

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