Reviewing the Path Dependency in Australian Metropolitan Planning

Abstract

This article advances that the distinctive characteristics of Australian metropolitan planning that developed last century have become entrenched and enlarged in the mainland metropolitan strategies of the first decade of the 21st century. However, while such plans were reasonably successful and appropriate in the circumstances of the long boom, this modernist approach is no longer apposite for the more fluid, fluent and complex dynamics of current Australian metropolitan centres. The article discusses why this may be so and explores ways in which current metropolitan strategic planning processes might be reconfigured to more positively reflect and guide these more complex and uncertain challenges.

本文指出, 上个世纪澳大利亚城市规划各显神通, 到这个世纪的头十年, 却凸显出分裂的 特性。尽管这些规划在长期经济繁荣时期显得恰当而且成功, 但这种现代主义方法面对今 日澳大利亚中心大城市的瞬息万变和复杂纷繁, 却显得捉襟见肘。本文探讨其中的缘由, 并试图探索重组大城市战略规划过程的道路, 以便更积极地反映和引导目前复杂而不确定 的挑战。

Keywords:

• Metropolitan planning
• governance
• process