Town planning

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Paul Ashton
Robert Freestone

Abstract

From an accidental city without a plan, Sydney has become a city with many plans. Some would say too many, and there have been endless rounds of planning system reform since the 1980s. The central city and suburbs no longer grow ‘like topsy’ but with the greater metropolitan area still being propelled by market forces towards a population of seven million by the mid twenty-first century, there are new sets of pressures around both old (development versus environment, local-state tensions, congestion) and new (affordability, social polarisation, impacts of climate change) problems which inescapably challenge the first Australian city and the one most connected to the global economy.

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Paul Ashton, University of Technology, Sydney

Paul Ashton is Associate Professor of Public History and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales

Robert Freestone is Associate Professor of Planning in the School of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales.