The challenge of attaining a sustainable urban morphology for South East Queensland

Gillen, Mike

doi:10.1080/02697450601090781

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“…This strong bureaucratic structure was eroded quickly and development soon outgrew town plans following the immigrants´ thirst for new opportunities [10], [29]. This new laissez-faire paradigm persisted in the Australian federal government´s historical lack of concern with urban morphology [30]. In Queensland in particular, governments have traditionally shown reluctance toward planning [21].…”

Section: Urban Development History Of Brisbanementioning

confidence: 99%

Planning Opportunities for Climate Resilience in Brisbane, Australia: Learning From the City’s History of Floods

Brage

Leardini

2018

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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South East Queensland, in Eastern Australia, is a region naturally prone to flooding. While this intrinsic hydrologic characteristic of the area was well known to its aboriginal inhabitants, its urbanisation is less than two hundred years old and has proven greatly oblivious to the natural environment. In Brisbane, the capital city of the State of Queensland, the clash between natural processes of the namesake river, its numerous creeks and the sea, and the superimposed layer of the urban fabric has recurrently played out since the foundation of the colony, in 1824, with the last disastrous event occurring in 2011 at a tremendous human and material cost. This paper analyses the nature of this difficult relationship between water as a dynamic force and the city of Brisbane as a static, yet ever expanding, presence, from a historical, geographical and social point of view. The aim is to identify opportunities that lay dormant in this relationship since its prehistory and can be harnessed to make the future city resilient to its geographical and climatic context, by embracing urban planning and management approaches that are sensitive to, and compatible with the deep structure of the city and its territory. Based on findings of this multifaceted analysis the paper recommends the application of longterm, adaptable planning that is framed according to climate cycles and climate change forecasts, a multidisciplinary, integrated way of understanding flooding, and a coordinated and transparent decision-making process that includes all institutions and stakeholders beyond individual interests.

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Section: Urban Development History Of Brisbanementioning

confidence: 99%

Planning Opportunities for Climate Resilience in Brisbane, Australia: Learning From the City’s History of Floods

Brage

Leardini

2018

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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“…Ecologies inside of urban footprints are increasingly pressured by the search for more compact and consolidated cities (Gleeson et al, 2004;Gillen, 2006). Over the last decade tension has increased between efforts to reduce urban sprawl on one hand and the provision of urban ecosystem services on the other.…”

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Watershed management in an urban setting: process, scale and administration

Schmidt¹,

Morrison²

2012

Land Use Policy

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“…This urban morphology process can be a force that drives demand and change in the policies or strategies in order to shape sustainable and resilient urban form and structure. From this process, all agencies involved in city planning can structure the urban form into a systematic arrangement (Gillen, 2006).…”

Section: Urban Morphology For Resilience Urban Governancementioning

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Geospatial Technology Approaches in Urban Morphology for Resilient Urban Governance

Nor¹,

Abdullah²,

Zahari³

2014

PMJ

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This study analysed the potential of applications of geospatial technology in urban planning research in urban morphology. Urban morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. It is an approach in designing urban form that considers both physical and spatial components of the urban structure. This study was conducted in Georgetown, Penang with the main purpose to identify the evolution of urban morphology and the land use expansion using remote sensing images and Geographical Information System (GIS) technique. Four series of temporal satellite SPOT 5 J from 2004, 2007, 2009, and 2014 were used to detect an expansion of land use development using change detection technique. Three types of land use were identified, namely built-up area, unbuilt-up area, and water bodies with a good accuracy of above 85%. The result showed that the built-up area significantly increased due to the rapid development in urban area. Finally, the result provided an understanding and strengthened the relationship between urban planning and geospatial applications in creating sustainable and resilient city and future urban governance.

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The challenge of attaining a sustainable urban morphology for South East Queensland

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Planning Opportunities for Climate Resilience in Brisbane, Australia: Learning From the City’s History of Floods

Planning Opportunities for Climate Resilience in Brisbane, Australia: Learning From the City’s History of Floods

Watershed management in an urban setting: process, scale and administration

Geospatial Technology Approaches in Urban Morphology for Resilient Urban Governance

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