Planning Metropolitan Australia

List of contents

1. The Metropolitan Perspective 1
Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone
2. Beginnings: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning to the Late Twentieth Century 26
Robert Freestone and Christine Garnaut
3. Melbourne: Growing Pains for the Liveable City 51
Robin Goodman
4. Sydney: Growth, Globalization and Governance 76
Raymond Bunker, Robert Freestone and Bill Randolph
5. Adelaide: Tough Times in the City of Light 101
Stephen Hamnett and Jon Kellett
6. Perth: From ‘Large Provincial City’ to ‘Globalizing City’ 124
Paul J. Maginn and Neil Foley
7. South East Queensland: Change and Continuity in Planning 148
Paul Burton
8. Canberra: ‘Normalization’ or ‘the Pride of Time’? 170
Karl Friedhelm Fischer and James Weirick
9. The Metropolitan Condition 195
Brendan Gleeson

About the author

Stephen Hamnett is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia in Adelaide and a Commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court of South Australia.
Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Summary

Designed as a companion and update to The Australian Metropolis, first published in 2000, this book reveals the new economic, social and technological forces which are shaping a fundamentally different Australian metropolis in the 21st Century.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen (University of South Australia Hamnett, Stephen Freestone Hamnett
• Assisted by: Robert Freestone (Editor), Freestone Robert (Editor), Stephen Hamnett (Editor), Hamnett Stephen (Editor), Ann Rudkin (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367501952
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50195-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, Australia, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Social issues & processes, Interdisciplinary studies, Social and ethical issues, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects