Urban Policy and Research · 2009 · 43 citations · 24 references
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Metropolitan strategies for Australia’s five mainland capitals have been produced in recent years, reflecting an Australian planning paradigm that is adapted differently across states due to institutional and political contexts, and showing resonance with recent European planning theory and practice. The study finds that while the Australian planning paradigm is reaffirmed, there is also a shift toward a more relational and transactive planning approach that adds process to product.
Over the last several years, metropolitan strategies have been produced for the five mainland state capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The distinctive characteristics of Australian urban planning mean that they can be shown to reflect an Australian paradigm of planning. However, this paradigm is rewritten in different ways in each strategy reflecting the particular institutional circumstances and political culture of each state. In doing so there is some strong reaffirmation of this paradigm, but also indications of a more relational and transactive manner of planning adding further process to product. Here there is some resonance with recent developments in planning theory and to some extent in practice—largely in Europe.
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