This book maps the history of the development of a large growth corridor in Sydney between the sixties and early nineties. It outlines the five major visions of the development and explores the financial and environmental problems which arose.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1 Big Projects in a Time of Uncertainty: Facing the Future in a Contemporary Urban Development 2 Five Images of a Suburb: Competing Perspectives on the Economy, Environment, and Family Life 3 Visual Rhetorics in Growth Debates: Sydney's Future as a Los Angeles, Toronto, or Canberra 4 Formal Planning Processes: The Privileged Language of Professional Planning 5 Hard and Soft Privatization: Unequal Impacts of Government Withdrawal 6 Urban Development and the Power of Ideas