Reforming ‘Sydney global city’: Mapping enduring sites of institutional conflict

Grant, BJ; Ryan, R; Lawrie, A

Reforming ‘Sydney global city’: Mapping enduring sites of institutional conflict

Grant, BJ

Ryan, R

Lawrie, A

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Publisher:: SHE; UNSW Business School
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: 14th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 2015, 14 (1)
Issue Date:: 2015-12-07

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dc.contributor.author	Grant, BJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8055-6046	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ryan, R https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6171-0709	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lawrie, A	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Kriesler, P	en_US
dc.date	2015-12-07	en_US
dc.date.available	2015-11-17	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-12-07	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	14th Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, 2015, 14 (1)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37927
dc.description.abstract	Local government in New South Wales (NSW) Australia presently faces the prospect radical consolidation alongside the implementation of metropolitan-wide governance structures. The pervasive modernity of these processes has been couched in the rhetoric of the need to achieve ‘Global City’ status such that Sydney can compete with other regionally-based centres. However, these narratives neglect the historically repetitive nature of these conflicts. Following from an account of the city’s early attempts at metropolitan governance, this discussion examines ‘Sydney Global City’ as it is portrayed in the advocacy literature exemplified by the work of the increasingly influential lobby group, the Committee for Sydney. We then provide an account of contemporary processes of state-local relations toward consolidation and metropolitan governance. We argue that former iterations of attempted reforms are instructive, particularly in directing attention to the institutional sites of conflict away from the economic reductionism of the ‘global cities’ narrative.	en_US
dc.publisher	SHE; UNSW Business School	en_US
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dc.title	Reforming ‘Sydney global city’: Mapping enduring sites of institutional conflict	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

Local government in New South Wales (NSW) Australia presently faces the prospect radical consolidation alongside the implementation of metropolitan-wide governance structures. The pervasive modernity of these processes has been couched in the rhetoric of the need to achieve ‘Global City’ status such that Sydney can compete with other regionally-based centres. However, these narratives neglect the historically repetitive nature of these conflicts. Following from an account of the city’s early attempts at metropolitan governance, this discussion examines ‘Sydney Global City’ as it is portrayed in the advocacy literature exemplified by the work of the increasingly influential lobby group, the Committee for Sydney. We then provide an account of contemporary processes of state-local relations toward consolidation and metropolitan governance. We argue that former iterations of attempted reforms are instructive, particularly in directing attention to the institutional sites of conflict away from the economic reductionism of the ‘global cities’ narrative.

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