Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1742171
E. Morgan, Elnaz Torabi, Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes
{"title":"Responding to change: lessons from water management for metropolitan governance","authors":"E. Morgan, Elnaz Torabi, Ayşın Dedekorkut-Howes","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1742171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1742171","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Metropolitan governance is back on the agenda in Australia as cities continue to grow and dominate the economy as well as their surrounding regions. In some sectors, however, metropolitan governance is not new. Water resources have long been governed at a metropolitan scale, even if it has not been explicitly called so. This paper uses the example of water governance in South East Queensland (SEQ) to draw lessons for metropolitan-scale governance across Australia. It discusses why and how water governance in SEQ has become increasingly ‘metropolitan’, the advantages of this approach, and why it has also proved problematic. In particular, the findings of the research highlight how the approach in SEQ has been fragmented. The paper concludes by outlining recommendations for improving coordination and participation at the metropolitan scale.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"125 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1742171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48245254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-18DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739099
M. Buxton
{"title":"Are independent authorities the answer to integrated city planning?","authors":"M. Buxton","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739099","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper argues that the capacity for metropolitan wide integrated planning coupled with underpinning governance ideology, not an independent planning authority, is most important for successful city planning, using Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. Advocates of independent planning commissions argue that such bodies are more likely to plan a city as a unitary system on the basis of evidence, expertise and policy in place of political considerations. However, such bodies are not the only effective means of achieving metropolitan governance. Three alternative successful urban governance models are examined: vertically integrated models, coordination of independent powerful local authorities, and state control over metropolitan governance coupled with regulatory land-use policies. The model of planning governance adopted for Melbourne in the 1980s combined strong centralised government overview of the planning system with cross-sectoral policy while delegating defined powers to local authorities. Its regulatory provisions were an explicit rejection of neoliberalism and led to accountable, efficient decisions from democratically elected state and local governments. Its eventual replacement by neo-liberal governance was a key factor leading to fragmentation and an end to continuity in metropolitan wide urban planning.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"149 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44141247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-14DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739093
J. Bush, B. Coffey, S. Fastenrath
{"title":"Governing urban greening at a metropolitan scale: an analysis of the Living Melbourne strategy","authors":"J. Bush, B. Coffey, S. Fastenrath","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739093","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As Australian cities face challenges of increased size, density and a range of environmental issues, compounded by climate change impacts, integration of greening is receiving increased attention. Greening, in the form of parks, gardens, waterways, water-sensitive designs and green roofs, contributes to liveability, sustainability and resilience, and habitat for non-human species. Local governments are responsible for the day-to-day management of much of Australia’s urban public spaces and are developing strategies for these areas. However, local-scale planning risks piecemeal, uncoordinated and ineffective approaches, particularly for biophysical systems that have little relationship with municipal boundaries. How can a metropolitan-scale approach be applied to green space planning and governance? This paper presents a case study of Living Melbourne metropolitan urban forest strategy, developed by Nature Conservancy and Resilient Melbourne. Resilient Melbourne brings together Melbourne’s 32 local governments to plan and advocate at the metropolitan scale. While the Living Melbourne strategy provides a metropolitan-scale approach, questions of governance, including how the strategy will be implemented and how local context is understood, are highlighted. Further, in developing a metropolitan-scale approach, how are the voices of local communities included? The paper analyses who is governing Melbourne’s urban greening, and the benefits and risks of a metropolitan-scale approach.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"102 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46781603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-14DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739098
Matt Novacevski, S. Meadows
{"title":"Working with reverberations: new ways for small towns","authors":"Matt Novacevski, S. Meadows","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739098","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Typically, metropolitan governance literature and practice has lacked focus on the ways that processes of urbanisation affect rural areas or small towns. As urbanisation is increasingly recognised as a process that reverberates across peri-urban and rural regions, the entwined and interdependent nature of governance across scales becomes evident. This interaction is recognised in the 2017 iteration of Plan Melbourne’s directions relating to peri-urban and regional areas. This illustrates the need for planning to respond to opportunities and challenges arising from interactions between small towns and metropolitan governance. This article investigates these gaps in two ways: Firstly, by introducing the idea of reverberations to describe the effects of external factors like metropolitan governance exert on lived experience in small towns. Secondly, we use reflective practice to explore how working with those reverberations has shaped the development of a place-based ecological model for small-town planning. Informed by the work of practitioners and scholars such as Randolph Hester, David Seamon and Patsy Healey, the place-based ecological model innovates by bringing a phenomenological and relational sensibility to planning, fostering place-based assets to allow for responses to reverberations, and address existing gaps in planning practice. The article then suggests future directions for the evolution of small-town planning and governance frameworks.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"134 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-14DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739094
Kane Pham
{"title":"Beyond borders: steering metropolitan growth priorities through spatial imaginaries","authors":"Kane Pham","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Borders and boundaries are practical ways of organising spatial relations in metropolitan regions. They usefully define administrative divisions between local government areas, informing the constraints of land-use plans, and describe individual sites necessary for the transaction and development of property and land. However, functional divisions of space are not always clear cut. Contemporary challenges of urbanisation and globalisation often ignore administrative-political boundaries, thus statutory divisions of space are required to be woven into other functional spatial layers drawing attention to the strategic-statutory interface of planning systems and governance arrangements. Although not new, experiments with spatial imaginaries have accelerated, and have become central to metropolitan strategies. In Sydney, the Greater Parramatta and Olympic Peninsula functional economic corridor introduces both new mechanisms for implementation and statutory weight on top of strategic direction. We draw attention to the way this spatial imaginary utilises (or ignores) existing borders and boundaries in an attempt to rebalance the spatial structure of the metropolitan region. Through this case study, we highlight the challenges of rebalancing the Sydney metropolitan region, and the broader implications that emerge through the use of spatial imaginaries.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"103 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42094041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-14DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739100
A. Kroen
{"title":"The missing link between growth area planning and metropolitan governance","authors":"A. Kroen","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739100","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Melbourne, growth area planning is generally influenced by the overarching metropolitan plan, but there is a missing link – an overall metropolitan point of view and approach is lacking. While a planned approach to growth areas is important and is quite sophisticated and well-established in Melbourne, it is also crucial to account for what these plans mean for the overall metropolitan area and what interdependencies exist. Growth areas are places where some of the central challenges of metropolitan development play out and are dealt with. At the same time, their growth also exacerbates some of those challenges. Current metropolitan governance structures in Melbourne lead to growth councils being left alone to some extent in their dealing with the strong population growth. The State Government assists those councils with some programmes, but there is no balance, support or coordination between all metropolitan councils to counterbalance the diverse challenges. A more inclusive and less state-focused metropolitan governance structure can provide some solutions and the opportunity to discuss how we want our metropolitan growth to happen.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"153 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49439369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-03-14DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739096
S. Dühr
{"title":"Imagining the region: cartographic representations in Australian metropolitan spatial strategies","authors":"S. Dühr","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The challenges facing Australia’s capital cities have prompted a renewed interest in metropolitan governance. The Australian situation is unique in that metropolitan spatial strategies are prepared by state governments, rather than through cooperation of local governments as in other countries. This presents specific challenges for establishing the metropolitan region as a relevant scale of action in the minds of stakeholders and citizens. In this paper, different types of spatial images in metropolitan strategies are identified and their potential role in region-building is conceptualised. Spatial imaginaries and spatial representations in metropolitan spatial strategies for Greater Sydney and Greater Adelaide are compared, which allows a reflection on the effect of different governance arrangements on establishing the image and identity of a region. The paper concludes with a critical reflection on the role of spatial representations in supporting the international and external positioning of regions that have been defined in a top-down manner.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"83 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46055342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739090
J. Bolleter
{"title":"Green dream: examining the barriers to an innovative stormwater and public open space structure plan on Perth’s suburban fringe","authors":"J. Bolleter","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739090","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Wungong Landscape Structure Plan (LSP), currently under construction on the fringes of Perth, embodies a number of innovations with respect to Public Open Space (POS) provision. These include the proposition of a holistic, interconnected POS system that transcends individual property ownership, an integrated POS and stormwater management system, and the use of a POS system as the primary guidelines for development. There has been significant resistance to these innovations from within the urban design and planning disciplines, the land development industry, and from regulatory bodies. This paper examines these various barriers to implementation to inform future suburban projects that attempt related innovations.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"22 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42905482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739091
A. J. Veal
{"title":"Planning for open space and recreation","authors":"A. J. Veal","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739091","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent decades have seen efforts by open space/recreation planners to provide an alternative to traditional population-ratio and area-percentage planning standards. Traditional standards have been criticised for their ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach and their failure to take account of increasing residential densities. This paper evaluates two of the alternatives which have emerged: the catchment access based standard (CABS) and demand-based planning. The CABS is found to be just a variation on traditional standards. Published demand-based approaches are found to lack methodological detail and are based on a relatively passive policy stance. In contrast, state and federal governments have begun to adopt a more active stance in setting targets to increase community sport/recreation participation levels, based particularly on health-based criteria. It is argued that participation targets could also form the focus of local planning, especially in the context of a proposed coordinated local-state-federal planning framework.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"37 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45231744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Australian PlannerPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1739092
B. Holderness-Roddam
{"title":"Dog park design, planning and management","authors":"B. Holderness-Roddam","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2020.1739092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739092","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The principal purpose of this paper is to provide guidance for the design, planning and management of off-leash dog exercise parks. After a brief discussion of the environmental impacts of the high number of domestic dogs in Australia, the author looks at definitions of dog parks. The paper then considers their advantages and disadvantages, before looking at the key aspects of off-leash dog park design, planning and management, setting out the main features to be considered when designing a dog park. These are primarily based upon the available literature, chiefly from the USA where dog parks are an established feature; and the author's assessment of several Australian off-leash dog parks. Recognition of the potential risks to both dogs and their human companions need to be considered in dog parks’ design, planning and management.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"48 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2020.1739092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}