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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Urban planning in South Australia « Previous | |Next »
April 17, 2009

Steve Hamnett in Ten Years of Metropolitan Strategic Planning in South Australia provides the background to a research project at the University of South Australia which aims to critically review the aims and achievements of metropolitan strategic plans for Adelaide since 1990. He says that under the Brown and then Olsen Liberal governments there was an apparent lack of enthusiasm for the notion of a metropolitan planning strategy.

The government’s urban development agenda reverted to the pursuit of individual major investment projects across the metropolitan area – several at Technology Park in the northern suburbs and others close to Flinders University and the Adelaide airport.....there was a greater rhetorical emphasis on promoting a business environment conducive to investment. This strategy also reflected a desire to update Adelaide’s long-established centres policy, at a time of major growth in suburban retail centres, and it drew on the work of the ‘Adelaide 21’ project which had made a number of recommendations designed to reinvigorate the stagnant city centre property market and to reposition Adelaide as a city able to compete globally in certain niche export markets ...the defining characteristic of the period was the emphasis on providing a quick and certain planning approvals system for developers on the argument, regularly contested by some, that delay and inefficiency in the system were scaring off investors.

Strategic planning re-emerged with the Ran Labor Government, which was commited to making Adelaide a ‘leading creative and green city’ and identifies the planning strategy’s task as being to guide physical development and the growth of the city in ways which support this commitment.

There is acceptance of the notion that a compact urban form is likely to be more sustainable and early challenges to the urban growth boundary, mounted by large land developers, have been firmly resisted. However, Hammet says that:

In short, the strong commitment to ecologically sustainable development in the current draft metropolitan planning strategy appears to sit uneasily with what appears to be a dominant economic growth discourse in the State Strategic Plan and the accompanying infrastructure strategy.

We are in a period of strong economic growth now and have been for some time due to the economic boom, now gone bust. So what happens now?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 8:39 PM |