Benchmarking the Competitiveness of Australian Global Cities: Sydney and Melbourne in the Global Context

Hu, Richard; Blakely, Edward J.; Zhou, Yimin

doi:10.1080/08111146.2013.832667

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“…Although these studies have various dimensions of urban competitiveness, the common core dimensions include economic competitiveness, social competitiveness and environmental competitiveness [1,2,9,15,16]. This balanced approach suggests an equal importance of these dimensions, marking a significant scholarly advancement from the economic-centric approach to urban competitiveness.…”

Section: Environmental Sustainability and Urban Competitivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite its conceptual and methodological contestations, the scholarship on urban competitiveness has indicated a clear trend of moving from being economic-centric to incorporating the economic, social and environmental dimensions of a city's progress (see [1,2]). This review scopes the studies that have included environmental sustainability into urban competitiveness to inform the theoretical framework and design of this study.…”

Section: Environmental Sustainability and Urban Competitivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The underpinning argument for OPEN ACCESS urban competitiveness is that cities do not complete as firms do, but compete in more complex ways for more complex goals; some cities provide better environments than others for firms to do business, and a city's competitiveness is related to its mix of attributes for business operations [7,8]. More recent literature challenged the economic-centric approach to urban competitiveness and argued for a balanced approach that reflects a city's economic, environmental and social development [2,9]. However, scholars differ in the conceptualization and methodology, as indicated in the next literature review section.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study fuses sustainability and competitiveness, conceptually and methodologically, to inform urban development. It injects sustainability into the urban competitiveness discourse, which has been evolving from being economic-centric to being increasingly incorporative of multiple dimensions of a city's performance, including environmental sustainability [1,2]. There have been debates on whether and how cities compete [3][4][5][6].…”

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

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This study injects sustainability into competitiveness to inform policy making and planning for contemporary urban development. This is built upon the recent advancement in the scholarship on urban competitiveness that demonstrates a clear deviation from an economic-centric approach to incorporate multiple dimensions of a city's progress. This study has an explicit concern for environmental sustainability and its relationship with urban competitiveness and their conceptual and methodological articulations. Empirically, this study measures the sustainability and competitiveness in Australian cities and reveals that Australia's urban progress is clearly associated with an environmental cost. The findings are useful to inform policy making and planning for building sustainable and competitive cities. Apart from the conventional solutions that focus on urban form change and transport infrastructure improvement, this study suggests a need to explore the opportunities deriving from the emerging smart city planning and practice.

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Section: Environmental Sustainability and Urban Competitivenessmentioning

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

2015

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“…The global city discourse has focused on the strategic roles of command and control played by many major urban nodes in the integrated world economy, in particular, on their capacity of providing advanced producer services [10,12,13,[22][23][24]. The global city discourse has included Sydney as a member city in the global city network, and has ascertained Sydney's evolving competitive position in the global context [12,13,22,23,[25][26][27][28]. Empirically, the Globalisation and World Cities (GaWC) research program at Loughborough University measured the advanced producer services of world cities and thus ranked them in 2000,2004,2008,2010 and 2012 respectively [29].…”

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Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

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2015

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Abstract:The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the new context of the global city, and how we should articulate their interrelationships. To address this question, we construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a set of indexes to measure global competitiveness, global migration, and global mobility of communities across global Sydney. The findings reveal that global competitiveness-the defining capacity of Sydney as a global city-has very weak association with global migration that measures the stock of foreign born population, but has very strong association with global mobility that measures the people movement in recent years. These findings call for a redefinition of migration to incorporate people movement to better capture the interplay between global city and migration.

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Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective

2020

Aust J Social Issues

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The Australian Government's attempts at national urban policy have been sporadic and inconsistent, under the constraints of constitutional, financial, ideological and political factors. This paper concerns the recent resurgence of national urban policy under the rubric of “smart cities” adopted by the Turnbull Government and carried on by the incumbent Morrison Government. It investigates how this round of smart cities agenda articulates with Australia's political tradition of national urban policy to seek continuity and change, through comparing historical policies, unpacking major smart cities programmes, identifying explanatory factors and critically commenting on its innovation and legacy. Drawing upon these analyses, this paper argues that understanding the smart cities agenda needs to move beyond the political, ideological “to‐and‐fro” pendulum to national urban policy observed in history. Rather, it resonates with a globalised policy norm established upon the city‐based global integration and competition, driven by an imperative of transitioning to a knowledge economy and pursuing innovation capacity. It is too early to judge whether the smart cities agenda will bring changes to Australian cities in the way it wishes, since it involves long‐term infrastructure investment and urban development projects. However, a comprehensive and consistent national urban policy to govern the Australian system of cities and towns has not been established yet.

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Benchmarking the Competitiveness of Australian Global Cities: Sydney and Melbourne in the Global Context

Cited by 33 publications

References 39 publications

Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Competitiveness, Migration, and Mobility in the Global City: Insights from Sydney, Australia

Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective

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