Constructing Suburbs
Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2005
210 pages
978-1-135-30011-1 (ISBN)
Description
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, economic, and institutional power applied by the parties in the project, with emphasis on the processes of infrastructure privatization and ecological impacts. The conclusion reflects on contemporary dilemmas about pluralism.
Reviews / Votes
"Constructing Suburbs is an assured integration of primary and secondary data analysis infused with theoretical sensibility....The writing style subtly and skillfully negotiates the author's insider/outsider roles, and the book emerges as a lucid and accessible account, complete with interpolations to make "Australianisms" intelligible to an American readership....This is truly disciplined writing in all its pieces."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
4,79 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-30011-1 (9781135300111)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
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05/1999
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05/1999
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Ann Forsyth
Content
Introduction 1 Big Projects in a Time of Uncertainty: Facing the Future in a Contemporary Urban Development 2 Five Images of a Suburb: Competing Perspectives on the Economy, Environment, and Family Life 3 Visual Rhetorics in Growth Debates: Sydney's Future as a Los Angeles, Toronto, or Canberra 4 Formal Planning Processes: The Privileged Language of Professional Planning 5 Hard and Soft Privatization: Unequal Impacts of Government Withdrawal 6 Urban Development and the Power of Ideas
