Bordering Practices in Global Sydney: Becoming a City-Region or a “Metropolis of Three Cities”?
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- Springer
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
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- Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim Borders, Challenges, Futures, 2018, 1, 1 pp. 57 - 72
- Issue Date:
- 2018
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As cities grow they become city-regions. Recent strategies for the construction of the Sydney Global City Region have suggested a westward geographical shift of its center, with the current city becoming an eastern node in this reconstruction of metropolitan Sydney. This chapter utilizes recent perspectives from the field of Border Studies that scrutinize the liminal state of borders, offering alternative approaches to understanding the formation of subregions, their relationships, and implications for a greater “Sydney Global City Region.” As the spatial boundary of the city-region grows, its interior relations are repositioned as new borders are formed. Sydney is facing restructuring to become a “metropolis of three cities.” This introduces both opportunities and complexities in the governing and strategy toward the future shape and importance of the existing “Sydney Global City.” Formation of these city-regions also makes visible the latent interjurisdictional politics that frame the planning and governance of these extended urban environments. Through an analysis of successive strategic planning documents from 2005 to 2017, this chapter first finds that the growth of cities requires new theoretical perspectives to “see” the changing dynamics within the city-region. Second, the chapter examines the bordering practices between subregions that guide the strategic shift to reimagine greater Sydney as a metropolis of three cities. These growth strategies displace the focus on community development at a local level, further prioritizing economically driven developments that are manufactured through bordering practices redefining the city-region.
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