Pleasure, Politics, and the “Public Interest”:<i>Melbourne's Riverscape Revitalization</i>

Sandercock, Leonie; Dovey, Kim

doi:10.1080/01944360208976262

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“…In Melbourne, high-rise living has been traditionally associated with public housing but more recently has become a new residential option allied to affluent inner-city living. This shift in high-rise and highdensity living has been brought about by a number of forces (Sandercock & Dovey, 2002).…”

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From Prisons to Penthouses: The Changing Images of High-Rise Living in Melbourne

Costello¹

2005

Housing Studies

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The high-rise housing market in Melbourne has been undergoing dramatic growth in the last ten years. This emerging housing style is in stark contrast to the familiar traditional lowdensity suburban dwelling scouring Australian metropolitan cities. This paper traces the representations of high-rise housing since its first appearance in the 1960s to today. Discourses of high-rise housing that have seen this housing type change from one characterised by urban decay and family disorganisation to that which unproblematically glorifies this new housing form will be explored. These new and inviting images of high-rise living today are juxtaposed with the understandings of high-rise public housing that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. High-rise public housing was once seen as a solution to housing the impoverished and arresting the spread of slum conditions. High-rise housing today is being celebrated amongst government, developers, planners and occupiers as saving the inner city from decay and indicative of a re-vitalised CBD.

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From Prisons to Penthouses: The Changing Images of High-Rise Living in Melbourne

Costello¹

2005

Housing Studies

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“…Policy and legislative documents resulting from the Olympic bid's work made explicit comparisons between Toronto and other-international cities, such as London, Barcelona, Baltimore, and New York, which were said to be "reaping the benefits" (Moloney and DeMara, 1999) of their own waterfront development initiatives. While many of these cities have experienced negative social, environmental, and economic impacts resulting from these projects (Basset et aI., 2002;Florio and Brownill, 2000;Moulaert et aI., 2003;Sandercock and Dovey, 2002;Swyngedouw et aI., 2002), the economic benefits to business, the catalytic 'sparking' of external investment, the improvement of urban aesthetics, the luring of well-heeled tourist dollars, and the construction of a cosmopolitan, vibrant, and urbane aura that were said to have arisen from their reconfigured waterfronts were lauded as models for Toronto and proclaimed as the ultimate answer to Toronto's longstanding waterfront problem. Toronto was to reconfigure itself into an entrepreneurial entity by building "the greatest waterfront in the world" (City of Toronto, 2000b) using a development model based on speculative investment in green infrastructure.…”

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The ecosystem approach and the global imperative on Toronto’s Central Waterfront

Laidley

2007

Cities

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As one of the 'last great waterfronts' to embrace what has become a near-ubiquitous post-fordist development model, the formerly industrial lands of Toronto's Central Waterfront are currently being reshaped to provide the kinds of spaces and places that facilitate new modes of capital accumulation. In order to understand how Toronto's waterfront has come to be mobilized to accommodate the imperatives of 21st-century global economic and spatial restructuring, this paper explores the area's recent planning history, reviewing the policies and politics of waterfront planning activities undertaken over the past twenty years. A new and novel 'ecosystem approach' to waterfront planning was adopted in Toronto in this period that allowed its proponents to resolve historical problems that had formerly impeded new forms of waterfront development. This paper demonstrates that, in so doing, the ecosystem approach -and its use by a succession of influential waterfront planning bodies and processes -set the stage for the Central Waterfront to become a key site for the elite pursuit of world city status in Toronto.

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“…In addition, Melbourne has experienced river-front redevelopment along the Yarra at South Bank, initiating a mix of unique public involvement and public, as well as private, infrastructure investment (Sandercock and Dovey 2002). Melbourne's inner city has now transformed from its beginnings as an industrial hub and has flourished as a sporting, cultural and artistic centre (O'Hanlon 2009) through market-led urban consolidation.…”

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Social sustainability in urban regeneration practice: a case study of theFortitude Valley Renewal Planin Brisbane

Darchen

Ladouceur

2013

Australian Planner

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Urban renewal has a social impact, and, here, we present the Fortitude Valley Renewal Plan (2007), in order to assess its process as a case study in relation to the concept of social sustainability. The objective is to develop recommendations to incorporate social sustainability in a proactive manner within the urban regeneration process. This research is based on the analysis of planning documents and semi-directed interviews with urban stakeholders involved in the regeneration process, particularly in the development of the Fortitude Valley Urban Vision statutory planning document. We analyse the case of Fortitude Valley's regeneration process in regards to three components: urban design, provision of affordable housing and the public engagement process. In conclusion, we explain how the tool of Sustainability Assessment (SA) could be used to improve strategic decision-making for the development of urban regeneration strategies for this case study.

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Pleasure, Politics, and the “Public Interest”:Melbourne's Riverscape Revitalization

Cited by 71 publications

References 13 publications

From Prisons to Penthouses: The Changing Images of High-Rise Living in Melbourne

From Prisons to Penthouses: The Changing Images of High-Rise Living in Melbourne

The ecosystem approach and the global imperative on Toronto’s Central Waterfront

Social sustainability in urban regeneration practice: a case study of theFortitude Valley Renewal Planin Brisbane

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