Vertical Sprawl in the Australian City: Sydney’s High-rise Residential Development Boom

Troy, Laurence; Randolph, Bill; Pinnegar, Simon; Crommelin, Laura; Easthope, Hazel

doi:10.1080/08111146.2019.1709168

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“…This respondent pointed towards the tension between growth being delivered in support of the Tourist industry, and growth being delivered in support of long-term residents. This points to a tension in the development model, consistent with major city counterparts, where higher density development is being driven by, and delivered for, a predominantly investor market (Troy et al 2020). In the case of Cairns, this means a strong focus on dwellings for short-term accommodation.…”

Section: Cairnsmentioning

confidence: 73%

Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions

Rowley¹

2022

AHURI Final Report

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Related reports and documentsInquiry into population growth in Australia's smaller cities https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research-in-progress/Inquiry-intopopulation-growth-in-Australias-smaller-cities AHURI AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre. AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians.Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community. AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing. AHURI Limited also gratefully acknowledges the contributions, both financial and in-kind, of its university research partners who have helped make the completion of this material possible. DisclaimerThe opinions in this report reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Limited, its Board, its funding organisations or Inquiry Panel members. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Limited, its Board or funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI journalAHURI Final Report journal series is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy makers, researchers and practitioners. Peer review statementAn objective assessment of reports published in the AHURI journal series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material published is of the highest quality. The AHURI journal series employs a double-blind peer review of the full report, where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

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Section: Cairnsmentioning

confidence: 73%

Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions

Rowley¹

2022

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“…This can create extreme economic pressures on recent immigrants, especially those arriving with little wealth or high earning potential after resettlement (Hiebert, 2017) The housing market in Sydney is characterised by a predictable density gradient, with outer suburbs dominated by low density detached housing, and as one moves closer to the core, increasing density in the form of medium to high-rise apartment blocks and townhouses. Sydney's higher density rental housing is also especially concentrated along railway corridors that provide connectivity to Sydney's Central Business District (Randolph, 2006;Troy, Randolph, Pinnegar, Crommelin, & Easthope, 2020). In Toronto, there is apartment housing along some major transit corridors, but many of the regional rail stations in Toronto are surrounded by surface parking lots that promote park-and-ride trips in lieu of direct transit-oriented development (Farber & Marino, 2017).…”

Section: Regional Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use

Allen

Farber

Greaves

et al. 2021

Journal of Transport Geography

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Public transit is immensely important among recent immigrants for enabling daily travel and activity participation. The objectives of this study are to examine whether immigrants settle in areas of high or low transit accessibility and how this affects transit mode share. This is analyzed via a novel comparison of two gateway cities: Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada. We find that in both cities, recent immigrants have greater levels of public transit accessibility to jobs, on average, than the overall population, but the geography of immigrant settlement is more suburbanized and less clustered around commuter rail in Toronto than in Sydney. Using logistic regression models with spatial filters, we find significant positive relationships between immigrant settlement patterns and transit mode share for commuting trips, after controlling for transit accessibility and other socio-economic factors, indicating an increased reliance on public transit by recent immigrants. Importantly, via a sensitivity analysis, we find that these effects are greatest in peripheral suburbs and rural areas, indicating that recent immigrants in these areas have more risks of transport-related social exclusion due to reliance on insufficient transit service.

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“…Against a global backdrop of urban intensification and verticalisation (Nethercote, 2018; Troy et al., 2020), understandings of the vertical home are crucial (Baxter, 2017; Jacobs et al., 2012). The urgency of this need has become only more compelling of late.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high-rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a "disorientated geographies" approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman-Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of "disorientated geographies," this paper examines the lived experience of three single men living in high-rise housing to revisit the high-rise as home. It aims to advance prevailing understandings of urban vertical living and more specifically of the processes through which these homes are made and unmade. Drawing on in-depth interviews with apartment dwellers in new high-rise housing in London and Melbourne, we explore residents' loss of orienting relations through their feelings of frustration, restlessness, and disappointment. We consider how these emotional states contribute to destabilise their homes as these three men struggle to comprehend and orient themselves within the sociospatial environment of the high-rise, and specifically an environment compromised by design and build quality issues. We argue that disorientation provides a useful but undervalued vantage point from which to understand the making and unmaking of vertical homes. In so doing, we foreground and sharpen understandings of the role of verticality, in particular, in these processes of home-unmaking. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. Conceptually, it both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. Empirically, we advance understandings of the lived experience of vertical urbanisms by drawing new and productive links between verticality and disorientation that move us beyond consideration of purely physiological responses, such as vertigo or dizziness, to high-rise living, to better account for a fuller range of bodily, emotional, and social practices.

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Vertical Sprawl in the Australian City: Sydney’s High-rise Residential Development Boom

Cited by 36 publications

References 29 publications

Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions

Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions

Immigrant settlement patterns, transit accessibility, and transit use

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

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