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{"title":"Project Assessment for Local Government Advocacy","authors":"T. Denham, C. Hamilton, J. Kellett, P. Maginn, Kirsten Martinus, J. Dodson","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2192917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2192917","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The infrastructure deficit, continued population growth and expanding urbanisation at the fringe of cities has been the subject of criticism, however, it remains important to consider how best to address the social, economic, health and environmental issues. This practice review sets out a method for multi-criteria analysis of infrastructure project proposals in outer suburban growth areas, undertaken by an independent team with knowledge of the issues. As a result, it provides insights into how to provide a cost-effective and systematic input into infrastructure prioritisation processes and investment advocacy, and as a result support local government in addressing infrastructure requirements.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"224 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban awakenings: disturbance and enchantment in the industrial city","authors":"S. Sturup","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2188660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2188660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"240 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45709327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Every Place Matters: Towards Effective Place-Based Policy","authors":"Yuan Wei","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2188659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2188659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"238 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47519035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing Housing Taxation Composition: A Review of Policy in the Australian Capital Territory","authors":"Yogi Vidyattama, Jinjing Li, R. Tanton, H. A. La","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2167818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2167818","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A tax reform introduced by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government in 2012 aimed to ease the barrier of owning a home by replacing stamp duty with a broad-based general rates and land tax. This article assesses on the impact of this reform on the ability of low-income families to buy a house using a microsimulation model. The results show that tax reform has increased property turnover and reduced the amounts paid for stamp duty and rates for most groups of vulnerable families in the ACT. However, extreme increases in house prices may offset this gain for vulnerable families.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"182 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48639008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cities in COVID-19: Reconsidering Urban Form, Mobility, Housing and Planning in Australasia","authors":"M. Swapan, A. Alam, D. Rogers, Donna Houston, M. Lobo, Zahra Nasreen","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2193590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2193590","url":null,"abstract":"Historically, global pandemics have made profound impacts on cities that lasted for generations and pushed us to reflect on and rethink how cities are lived, planned and re-oriented. The many disruptions brought in by each pandemic challenged urban growth patterns, policies and the status quo of that particular time. For example, we observed significant changes in planning and environmental control regulations in London and other European cities in the aftermath of the Great Fire in1666 [‘The great sanitary awakening’ (Winslow 1923)]. The most recent one, COVID-19 has caused unprecedented shifts in our urban life through changing mobility patterns, new forms of urban governance and pandemic response which have prompted critical questions of contemporary understandings and approaches to planning for resilient urban formations not only in relation to the city but also its hinterland areas and beyond, regional and rural centres (Ali et al. 2022, Alam and Nel 2023). While modern cities are facing complex and wicked problems, particularly in the face of climate change and the embrace of smart technologies, the outbreak of COVID-19 has been dramatic, putting urban policymakers, scholars, citizens and planners on a “pressure test” for rethinking urban planning trends, as well as highlighting existing and emergent deficiencies [Brockhoff, J. cited in Johnston (2020)]. COVID-19 cities are amplifying dialectical characteristics of invisibility and visibility, privilege and privation, selfishness and solidarity, and absence and presence (Rogers et al. 2020). In the past few years, urban life has been redefined by the ‘non-clinical panacea’ (Nahiduzzaman 2020) such as ‘lockdown’ ‘stay home’, ‘quarantine’, ‘self-isolation’, ‘social distancing’, ‘working from home’, ‘telehealth’, and ‘online shopping’. As an immediate effect, there is an unprecedented reduction in urban mobility due to the lockdown of activities, introduction of working from home and limited or online shopping. A recent survey shows around 88% of Australian employers encouraged or required their employees to work from home (Mitchell 2020). According to Grattan Institute, the crowds in the CBD of major cities on the east coast fell to a fifth or less during the height of the lockdowns (Kurmelovs 2020). This follows similar patterns of pedestrian and transport movement in major cities around the globe. For example, in London, Moscow, New York, Singapore and Milan, mobility dropped down as close to as 10% of trips during the peak of the pandemic (March 3May 5, 2020) (Statista 2020). On a positive note, a 28.3% decline in carbon emissions was recorded in Australian cities during April 2020 (Harvey 2020). The unprecedented shifts in daily urban life have prompted urban researchers and thinkers to explore ‘what a future city could look like’ (Cayford 2020). By recapturing many old debates around city structure, density, housing, social fabric, public/private space and parks, COVID-19 has compelled u","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44148079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge","authors":"P. Shrestha","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2165630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2165630","url":null,"abstract":"appeared to come primarily from the green criteria’s proponents. Scholars may also find concern with the use of anecdotes. For example, to highlight the poor condition of existing “grey” housing, the author describes the plight of a child too exhausted to study at school due to his nightly guard duty protecting working family members from rat attack. While not doubting the truth of the story, it is also unlikely to be a typical experience of low-income housing tenants in most of the OECD. Issues of affordability and poor housing standards are dire enough for more typical depictions without the need to highlight such outliers. Conceptually, the book could be expanded to consider broader drivers for many of the issues presented. It instead seems to follow a standard view that housing affordability issues primarily relate to the supply/demand models of classical economics, rather than matters of money supply and the role of housing as a financialised asset (Sisson et al., 2019). In Australia for example, the existing and approved supply of housing suggests our affordability crisis is more much more complex (Murray, 2021). It would have also been interesting to see an assessment of the rate at which “green” housing can realistically be provided, and therefore the extent to which such an incremental approach can meaningfully contribute to improving climate outcomes within the urgent timeframes required. Because of its approach to research and straight-forward conceptual underpinnings, the book is perhaps less useful to researchers than it otherwise could be. That said, such criticisms should be qualified by a consideration of its clear intent; Bourland’s work is highly pragmatic in nature and almost certainly designed to be most comprehendible to a broader audience. The book provides many applied examples of implementation of successful and sustainable affordable housing developments. It also describes and justifies a well utilised and refined set of housing criteria that are likely of interest and use both for instruction, and for practitioners involved in housing policy and development. It is clear, accessible, timely, and has obvious significance. On this basis, the book provides a valuable contribution towards addressing an array of housing matters that are vital for the future well-being of our society, and which have previously been mostly considered in isolation. Grey to Green Communities is therefore likely to be a useful work for those seeking applied understanding of models for developing sustainable affordable housing.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"120 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44757780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yes to the city: millenials and the fight for affordable housing","authors":"Alistair Sisson","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2179882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2179882","url":null,"abstract":"YIMBYism is a rapidly growing phenomenon that can’t be ignored, no matter how many Twitter accounts one mutes. Max Holleran’s Yes to the City is a timely introduction to those who proclaim “yes in my back yard!”; it is, to my knowledge, the first book-length treatment of the subject written by an author who is not a self-described or otherwise identified YIMBY. As YIMBYism spreads, readers can learn much from this book about the movement’s origins, its social composition, its strategies and its tactics. These are lessons that will be useful for understanding and responding to its emergence in various locales, whether one is a disciple or a critic. YIMBYism is, in essence, the enthusiastic embrace of higher density residential development and a retort to the much-maligned NIMBY (who I assume needs no introduction). YIMBYs want to remove barriers to densification: primarily zoning restrictions that prohibit denser building but also heritage protections, design standards, and other regulations that impose costs or constraints on the development process. While only a few explicitly oppose non-profit housing, the aim of the YIMBY game is to increase housing supply by lubricating the development process for the private sector. This, they claim, is the best solution to escalating housing costs. For this Holleran credits YIMBYs with “promoting a new framing within the housing debate: concentrating on supplyside mechanisms, working with (not against) developers, and emphasizing the rights of middleclass newcomers to wealthy cities” (p. 161). The novelty of this framing is questionable. Building more to reduce housing costs has been the solution pushed by private property developers for a long time, with great success if the metric is government policy but little if it is affordable homes. We can look to the work of the late great Mike Davis for one example of the framing’s durability: in City of Quartz, Davis wrote that Los Angeles developers in the 1980s responded to the power of NIMBY homeowner groups with","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"123 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45750337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Routledge Handbook of Regional Design","authors":"D. O’Hare","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2023.2179884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2179884","url":null,"abstract":"Adkins, L., Konings, M., and Cooper, M., 2020. The Asset Economy: Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality. Medford: Polity Press. Christophers, B., 2021. A tale of two inequalities: Housing-wealth inequality and tenure inequality. Environment and planning a: economy and space, 53 (3), 573–594. Davis, M., 2006. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. 2nd ed. London: Verso. Davis, M., 2018. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory. London: Verso. McDonald, P.R. 2020. Inside Game: California YIMBY, Scott Wiener, and Big Tech’s Troubling Housing Push. Housing Is a Human Right. Accessed 16th January 2023 via https://housinghumanrt.medium.com/inside-gamecalifornia-yimby-scott-wiener-and-big-techs-troubling-housing-push-e4b1c1a0f046. Nygaard, C., et al. 2022. Filtering as a source of low-income housing in Australia: Conceptualisation and testing. Ahuri final report No. 387. Smith, N., 1996. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. London: Routledge.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41559216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community Engagement and Diverse River Values: A Case Study of Dyarubbin","authors":"Elise Frost, Miriam J. Williams, J. McLean","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2022.2155131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2155131","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper draws on the example of Dyarubbin (Nepean River), an urban river in Sydney, Australia, to illuminate how community engagement facilitates the expression of diverse river values. Combining Indigenous water justice, critical planning scholarship, and a scalar approach to values, and drawing on qualitative research conducted in 2021, we discuss how diverse community values have been represented in strategies for the river and consider which values are overlooked in these processes. We conclude by arguing that values for Dyarubbin are contested and diverse, however the rigid nature of engagement frameworks and the scalar nature of government responsibilities have reduced engagement’s influence on planning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"279 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41452853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Post-Pandemic Central Business District (CBD): Re-Imagining the Creative City?","authors":"Chrissie Gibson, Christopher R Brennan-Horley, Nicole Cook, P. McGuirk, Andrew Warren, Peta Wolifson","doi":"10.1080/08111146.2022.2155130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2155130","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After central business districts (CBD) emptied from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and widespread working-from-home, culture and creativity feature prominently within recovery strategies, enrolling the arts and events to enliven urban precincts and attract people back into city centres. We draw upon resilience theory and creative city policymaking to critique present formulations of CBD revitalisation, and suggest alternatives. Despite overtures to social inclusion and environmental sustainability, revitalisation strategies mobilise pre-existing “vehicular ideas” that support corporate business interests in and claims on central city space. We articulate concerns around inclusivity, financial and property interests, creativity as consumption rather than production, livelihood concerns, and underwhelming acknowledgement of pandemic disruption. Instead of placing creativity in service of the competitive positioning of the CBD, we ask: what is the very purpose of the post-pandemic CBD, and who is the CBD for? Answering these questions invitesmore courageous propositions that seize once-in-a-generation opportunities for transformational change.","PeriodicalId":47081,"journal":{"name":"Urban Policy and Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"210 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43635639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}