Home, James, and don’t spare the horses: the inevitability of a second Sydney casino

Pham, K; Grant, B

Home, James, and don’t spare the horses: the inevitability of a second Sydney casino

Pham, K

Grant, B

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Australian Planner, 2017, 54 (2), pp. 80 - 92
Issue Date:: 2017-04-03

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dc.contributor.author	Pham, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-7789	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Grant, B https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8055-6046	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:14:54Z
dc.date.issued	2017-04-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Australian Planner, 2017, 54 (2), pp. 80 - 92	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0729-3682	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/90108
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Casinos have become an important yet controversial element of many contemporary metropoles, with cities on the Pacific Rim no exception. Twenty years after the opening of Sydney’s first casino, construction of its second is currently underway on a contentious site, the Barangaroo precinct. This paper offers a historical analysis of the current casino project against the backdrop of casino development in Australia general, comparing the current project to the development of Sydney’s first casino, The Star (formerly Star City). We argue that both have been predicated on a cosmopolitan gaze contributing to the image of a ‘global city’ and the promise of increased tax revenues. As a result, planning processes have lacked legitimacy, particularly in the case of Crown, which involves the use of significant public assets. This paper critiques the spectacle of iconic developments of both The Star at Pyrmont and Crown Casino at Barangaroo when set against the morphology and urban form, suggesting that a more sincere engagement with the specificity of place on major developments would mitigate against the polarising effects of contested urban projects.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Australian Planner	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/07293682.2017.1319394	en_US
dc.title	Home, James, and don’t spare the horses: the inevitability of a second Sydney casino	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	54	en_US
utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning	en_US
utslib.for	0502 Environmental Science and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/lnstitute for Public Policy and Governance
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - IPPG - Institute for Public Policy and Governance
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	54	en_US

Abstract:

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Casinos have become an important yet controversial element of many contemporary metropoles, with cities on the Pacific Rim no exception. Twenty years after the opening of Sydney’s first casino, construction of its second is currently underway on a contentious site, the Barangaroo precinct. This paper offers a historical analysis of the current casino project against the backdrop of casino development in Australia general, comparing the current project to the development of Sydney’s first casino, The Star (formerly Star City). We argue that both have been predicated on a cosmopolitan gaze contributing to the image of a ‘global city’ and the promise of increased tax revenues. As a result, planning processes have lacked legitimacy, particularly in the case of Crown, which involves the use of significant public assets. This paper critiques the spectacle of iconic developments of both The Star at Pyrmont and Crown Casino at Barangaroo when set against the morphology and urban form, suggesting that a more sincere engagement with the specificity of place on major developments would mitigate against the polarising effects of contested urban projects.

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