Planning Metropolitan Australia

Abstract

The governance and planning of Australian metropolitan areas are messy and state-specific affairs, with the arrangements and outcomes of each state reflecting their political leadership, policy challenges and planning ambitions. This volume is timely, both in extending the editors' previous volume The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History (Hamnett & Freestone 2000), and in adding to a growing contemporary literature calling for a metropolitan imperative in Australia (Tomlinson & Spiller 2018) and internationally (Katz & Bradley 2013). Planning Metropolitan Australia delves into the recent history of spatial strategies in the selected metropolitan regions (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, South East Queensland and Canberra), introduced with a macroscopic perspective of metropolitan change (Chapter 1), and an overview of the previous book (Chapter 2). Chapters 3-8 develop case studies on each metropolitan area, with a provocation on the metropolitan condition closing the volume (Chapter 9).