Capital City Manufacturing in Australia

Placing production in urban cultural policy: The locational patterns of cultural industries and related manufacturing

“…This has been shaped by long-run policy and property market dynamics that have replaced inner-urban industrial districts with higher-dollar residential and mixed-use neighbourhoods (Curran & Hanson, 2005;Ferm & Jones, 2017). At the same time, large tracts of outer-suburban industrial land have been opened on the urban fringe, contributing to the peripheral agglomeration of manufacturing businesses and workers (Grodach & Gibson, 2019;Logan, 1966).…”

“…We collected employment data for our three custom sectors from the ABS Census of Population and Housing (Census) for Metropolitan Melbourne. Historically, Melbourne served as Australia's manufacturing centre through the 19th and 20th centuries (Dingle & O' Hanlon, 2009;Logan, 1966) and has more recently developed a vibrant arts and cultural sector (Creative Victoria, 2016). Beyond this, Melbourne presents a useful case geographically with its sprawling urban form and contrasting inner and outer zones.…”

“…Despite less polarity in Cultural Manufacturing spatial patterns, the most robust hotspots are colocated with Ancillary Manufacturing near State Significant Industrial Precincts (SSIP), particularly in the north and south. These industrial precincts date back to the decentralization of high-volume manufacturers in the 1950s (Logan, 1966) and account for a significant share of Melbourne's manufacturing workforce (Table 2).…”

The Making of an Australian Technoburb

“…Significant office, commercial, retail, educational, and public utility land uses (Figure 2) Developed from the early 1960s Sources: Garreau (1991), NSW.Department of Planning (1991,1995), and fieldwork al, 1992) is far more emphatically etched in the metropolitan landscape. Nonetheless, suburbanisation of economic activity has seen a breakdown in the classical monocentric urban form and a shift toward multi-nucleated metropolitan regions, a trend identified early by Logan (1968). New centres have emerged and older centres have been transformed by economic activity attracted to suburban locations for financial, environmental, and image reasons.…”

Work‐residence Relationships in the City

“…In examining the patterns in the functioning of a large city as revealed by the journey to work, an analysis was made of the Sydney metropolitan area, using data from the Commonwealth Bureau of Census Journey to Work Survey (1961) which was based on a ten per cent sample of the work force at the time of the 1961 Commonwealth Census. With a population of 2.5 millions, the Sydney region appears to be fairly representative of the New World city: founded by Europeans in the eighteenth century it developed as a port, industrial and administrative centre, and, subsequently became a nodal point for a radial transport system (Logan, 1968). Internally it has undergone great change in the last twenty years with a rapid suburbanisation of population and economic activities producing a low density areal spread of urban activities.…”