Flawed Vision? Sydney’s Three Cities Metropolitan Strategy

ABSTRACT

The paper critically assesses the 2018 Greater Sydney Region Plan which proposes a polycentric metropolis of three cities, one a new city around the second airport. In implementing the polycentric form as a metropolitan structure, transport priority given to promoting the new western city's self-containment has reduced the emerging potential of the existing second centre. In responding to climate change, the strategy's new rail lines and transit-oriented development are compromised by a major inner/middle suburb motorway program and extensive greenfield expansion into the hottest part of the Sydney basin. Weak housing affordability measures conflict with high income knowledge job proposals.

摘要

本文对2018年大悉尼地区计划进行了批判性评估，该计划提出了一个由三个城市组成的多中心大都市，其中一个是围绕第二机场的新城市。在将多中心形式作为大都市结构实施的过程中，交通方面优先考虑促进西部新城的自我遏制，这降低了现有第二中心的新兴潜力。为了应对气候变化，该战略的新铁路线和以交通为导向的发展受到了一个主要的内/中郊区高速公路项目和向悉尼盆地最热地区的大规模绿地扩建的影响。薄弱的住房可负担性措施与高收入的知识工作建议相冲突。

KEYWORDS:

• Sydney Three Cities strategy
• Western Sydney Airport
• aerotropolis
• Western Parkland City
• polycentric metropolitan planning
• low carbon metropolitan planning

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Philip Deakin for his assistance in the preparation of the paper’s first draft.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).