Revaluing planning: Rolling back neo-liberalism in Australia
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Introduction: a time of change
He sees hopeIn asking me about cities. How can I tell himthe cities are debris driven by explosionswhose regulation takes a merciless cunning?Les Murray, Toward the Imminent Days
For much of the post-War period, the development of Australia's cities and regions was governed by a set of state-based Town and Country Planning systems, a form of regulation largely inherited from Britain. Although subject to a variety of antagonistic forces throughout their development — notably, in the form of
Impacts on planning
We are at an important turning point for planning in this country. If we as planners in the broader sense of the word, do not unite and become more vocal with our concerns, then we are in danger of seeing planning being reduced to a rubber stamping exercise, if this has not already occurred in some jurisdictions (Wensing, 1998, p. 2).
Renewing the promises
Now that the prospect of a continued, unlimited increase in material wealth has faded, we need more than ever a worked out conception of the good society — that is, an ideological stand — if we are to discuss policies intelligently (Sandercock, 1977, p. 231).
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Susan Marsden for comments made on an earlier draft of this manuscript.
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