The role of spatial imaginaries in plan making: The case of Greater Parramatta and the Olympic Peninsula, Sydney

Pham, Kane

The role of spatial imaginaries in plan making: The case of Greater Parramatta and the Olympic Peninsula, Sydney

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dc.contributor.author	Pham, Kane
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-27T03:46:15Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-27T03:46:15Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/173584
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.description.abstract	This research aims to understand the relationship between place-based strategies and the delivery of metropolitan growth priorities. While the contextual challenges of planning in Australia is unique globally, Australian planners have regularly drawn inspiration from abroad. These planning solutions take the form of policy ideals that are decontextualized from their point of import. As they are recontextualized, they are materialized into a spatial form known as spatial imaginaries. The implementation of spatial imaginaries target investment in particular places and provide levers for private sector investment. Spatial imaginaries can act as both rhetorical devices to influence spatial strategies, as well as providing an interface to communicate complex planning and policy visions. While the impact and significance of spatial imaginaries have been observed internationally, little attention has focused on examples in Australia. This thesis explores the outcomes of spatial imaginaries in the Australian context. Recent metropolitan strategies have identified the Greater Parramatta and Olympic Peninsula (GPOP) as integral to the vision of a ‘metropolis of three cities’ and the Central River City in improving equity and opportunity in the Sydney metropolitan region. To understand how the GPOP delivers on the metropolitan vision, the research has focused on the perceptions of professional planners, policy-makers, developers, and peak industry bodies directly involved in shaping and delivering strategic plans and policy frameworks. A theoretical framework was designed by drawing inspiration from the interrelated literatures of place-based planning, spatial imaginaries, border studies and multispatial metagovernance. Given this context, the research examined different stakeholder perspectives of the GPOP, to understand how spatial imaginaries influence spatial policy-making and delivery at different spatial scales – that is – from the local through metropolitan scales of governance. The research makes a contribution to the planning profession by engaging in in-depth research of a contemporary planning challenge in a strategically significant planning space of the GPOP. The contribution is two-fold – the development of a novel theoretical framework that can be used to examine the relationship of place-based strategies and the delivery of metropolitan growth priorities generally, and more specifically identifying the enablers of place-based development in the GPOP. While the GPOP has made advances in promoting place-based collaboration, further spatial strategic development innovations will be required to address emergent challenges.	en_US.UTF-8
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dc.rights	© 2023 Kane Pham
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dc.title	The role of spatial imaginaries in plan making: The case of Greater Parramatta and the Olympic Peninsula, Sydney	en_US.UTF-8
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Abstract:

This research aims to understand the relationship between place-based strategies and the delivery of metropolitan growth priorities. While the contextual challenges of planning in Australia is unique globally, Australian planners have regularly drawn inspiration from abroad. These planning solutions take the form of policy ideals that are decontextualized from their point of import. As they are recontextualized, they are materialized into a spatial form known as spatial imaginaries. The implementation of spatial imaginaries target investment in particular places and provide levers for private sector investment. Spatial imaginaries can act as both rhetorical devices to influence spatial strategies, as well as providing an interface to communicate complex planning and policy visions. While the impact and significance of spatial imaginaries have been observed internationally, little attention has focused on examples in Australia. This thesis explores the outcomes of spatial imaginaries in the Australian context. Recent metropolitan strategies have identified the Greater Parramatta and Olympic Peninsula (GPOP) as integral to the vision of a ‘metropolis of three cities’ and the Central River City in improving equity and opportunity in the Sydney metropolitan region. To understand how the GPOP delivers on the metropolitan vision, the research has focused on the perceptions of professional planners, policy-makers, developers, and peak industry bodies directly involved in shaping and delivering strategic plans and policy frameworks. A theoretical framework was designed by drawing inspiration from the interrelated literatures of place-based planning, spatial imaginaries, border studies and multispatial metagovernance. Given this context, the research examined different stakeholder perspectives of the GPOP, to understand how spatial imaginaries influence spatial policy-making and delivery at different spatial scales – that is – from the local through metropolitan scales of governance. The research makes a contribution to the planning profession by engaging in in-depth research of a contemporary planning challenge in a strategically significant planning space of the GPOP. The contribution is two-fold – the development of a novel theoretical framework that can be used to examine the relationship of place-based strategies and the delivery of metropolitan growth priorities generally, and more specifically identifying the enablers of place-based development in the GPOP. While the GPOP has made advances in promoting place-based collaboration, further spatial strategic development innovations will be required to address emergent challenges.

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