The journey to work and a satellite town: the cautionary example of Elizabeth

Forster, Clive

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8470.1974.tb00299.x

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“…Moreover, some sub‐areas within the region where jobs greatly outnumbered resident workers still had very high unemployment rates. As has long been recognised (Forster, 1974), a balance between the number of jobs and workers in a suburban region, even in the unlikely event that the types of job match precisely the nature of the local workforce, is no guarantee that people will find work locally. The real world is much less simple than that, and this is reflected in the fourth feature of the geography of employment and travel to work: a preponderance of cross‐suburban journeys between dispersed origins and destinations, leading inevitably to continued and very high levels of automobile dependence (though the 2001 Census suggests that the proportion of trips by self‐driven car may, at least, no longer be rising (Forster, 2004, 67)).…”

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The Challenge of Change: Australian Cities and Urban Planning in the New Millennium

Forster

2006

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This paper reviews recent research on the changing spatial structure of Australia's major cities from the early 1990s, concentrating on (a) the location of employment and journey to work patterns, (b) the changing nature of housing, and (c) patterns of residential differentiation and disadvantage. The paper argues that the 1990s was a watershed decade during which some taken-for-granted aspects of Australian urban character experienced significant change. It then examines the latest generation of strategic planning documents for these major metropolitan areas, all published between 2002 and 2005, and argues that there is a mismatch between the strategies' consensus view of desirable future urban structure, based on containment, consolidation and centres , and the complex realities of the evolving urban structures. In particular, the current metropolitan strategies do not come to terms with the dispersed, suburbanised nature of much economic activity and employment and the environmental and social issues that flow from that, and they are unconvincing in their approaches to the emerging issues of housing affordability and new, finer-grained patterns of suburban inequality and disadvantage. Overall, the paper contends that current metropolitan planning strategies suggest an inflexible, over-neat vision for the future that is at odds with the picture of increasing geographical complexity that emerges from recent research on the changing internal structure of our major cities.

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The Challenge of Change: Australian Cities and Urban Planning in the New Millennium

Forster

2006

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“…Over the last decade there have been a number of analyses of work journey patterns in particular cities at specific dates, such as Logan's (1968) pioneering study of Sydney at 1961 and Manning's (1975) detailed analysis of patterns in the same city at 1971. Studies have also been undertaken in Melbourne by Maher and O'Connor (1976), in Adelaide by Forster (1974Forster ( , 1977 and in Perth by the planning authorities (MRD, 1965;MRPA, 1969MRPA, ,1975. TO date, however, apart from recent work on Melbourne (Maher & O'Connor, 1978;O'Connor and iMaher, 1979), there has been little comparative analysis of changes in work journey patterns over time, or of the effect of job dispersal in these patterns.…”

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