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Master-planned estates and suburban complexity
Author/Creator
Dowling, Robyn;  McGuirk, Pauline
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Description
Our purpose in this paper is to undertake a critical engagement with existing Australian understandings of MPEs, and in particular the characteristics to which researchers draw attention. This critical exploration is conceptually guided by the notion of the post-suburban city. Definitively derived from a Californian, Los Angeles-focused imagination, this notion suggests the physical and social fragmentation of the city and a dispersed, polycentric urban form (Kling et al., 1991; Soja, 1997; Dear and Flusty, 1998). The dangers of extrapolating to a generalised understanding of contemporary urbanisation processes from a model taking Los Angeles as its archetype have been well rehearsed (e.g. McCann, 2002). Yet, while much empirical research remains to be done on Sydney’s socio-spatial and morphological transformations to a (broadly) post-suburban form, there is enough evidence of its decentring and of the unevenness and differentiation of its connections into flows of income, communications and culture to suggest that the idea of the post-suburban, as an approach to understanding the city, has much to offer in that it suggests a complexity to urban structure, mobilities and sociabilities across the breadth of the city. It is this potential that we apply here in attending to emergent suburban complexities in Sydney.
Relation
Post-Suburban Sydney Conference 2005: After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings (Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney 22-23 November, 2005) p. 1-11
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http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/publications
Date
2006
Publisher
Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Keyword(s)
master-planned estates (MPEs);  residential neighbourhoods
Resource Type
conference paper
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35628
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ISBN:1741081491
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