KEY ISSUES AND CHANGING MANAGEMENT APPROACHES IN AUSTRALIAN METROPOLITAN PLANNING: THE CASE OF SYDNE

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KEY ISSUES AND CHANGING MANAGEMENT APPROACHES IN
AUSTRALIAN METROPOLITAN PLANNING THE CASE OF
SYDNEY

• KEY ISSUES
• POPULATION GROWTH
• SUITABLE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING
• INFRASTRUCTURE
• ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
• SOCIAL COHESION

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Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area
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Emergence as Global City

• Population 4 million
• 21 Australia 60 of State of NSW
• Image Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Bondi Beach
• Airport is gateway to Australia
• Largest share of RHQs
• eg. 3/4 of international domestic banks
• 45 of immigrants choose Sydney
• 35 of population overseas born
• Disproportionate share of tourists

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Sydney Workforce
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POPULATION GROWTH

• Current 4.0m expected 2050 6m
• Drivers
• Economic globalization Sydney is Australias
  global city
• Demographic Immigration

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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Global arc located on east coast
• Weakly ventilated topographic basin
• Low (but increasing) regional population density
• Land shortage (at current densities)
• Radial transport system

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HOUSING ISSUES

• Affordability
• Increasing diversity of households
• Increased stock of medium and high density
  housing
• Sustainability
• Population ageing

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Sydney Dwellings by Type
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Smaller Households
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Sydney Immigration House Price
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TRANSPORTATION ISSUES

• Automobile dependency
• Subsidies to public transport
• Under-investment in roads and public transport
• Equity of access
• Equity in pricing
• Cross-regional connectivity

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Growth in travel, 1981 2001
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Mode share for all travel in Sydney
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Governance

• National government no engagement in cities
• State government effective metropolitan planners
• Local government
• Created by state legislation.
• Lower level land use planning and infrastructure
• Key challenge coordination
• State agencieslt-gt Local agencies
• Infrastructure agencies lt-gt metropolitan planning
  agency

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Spatial structural Innovations

• Densification
• Re-invention/strengthening of centers policy
• Facilitating multi-nodal mega-urban region
  Sydney-Newcastle
• Reinforce global arc

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Planning for Sydney
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Sydneys Global Arc

• Maintaining Sydney's global status
• Micro-economic efficiency
• Congestion
• Environmental quality
• Key infrastructure (airport)
• Amenity
• Security
• Spreading the benefits
• Socio-spatial polarisation how much of an
  issue?
• Accessibility (transport and telecommunications)

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Implementation innovations

• Pricing
• Infrastructure for new developments
• Value capture from greenfield/brownfield
  conversions/developer levies
• User pays and privatised provision
• Externality pricing

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References

• P.A. Murphy (2007) The metropolis, Ch. 7 in
  S.Thompson (ed.) Planning Australia an overview
  of urban and regional planning, Melbourne
  Cambridge University Press
• P.A. Murphy (2007) Economy and affect
  people-place relationships and the metropolis,
  Ch. 12 in Ruan, X. and P. Hogben (eds) Topophilia
  and topophobia reflections on twentieth century
  habitat. London Routledge.