Constructing Suburbs

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.

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