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Australian Unintended Cities
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Jacobs, KA, Australian Unintended Cities, Geographical Research, 5, (3) pp. 333-335. ISSN 1745-5863 (2013) [Review Single Work]
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Abstract
A noticeable feature of Australian urban policy
making is the increasing disjuncture between
government rhetoric and service delivery.
Government departments at both Federal and
State level churn out glossy strategy documents
that are awash with aspirational statements
professing to tackle problems such as housing
affordability, homelessness, suburban sprawl,
and traffic congestion. These documents, more
often than not, contain platitudinous terms
such as ‘liveability’, ‘sustainability’, ‘community
wellbeing’, ‘inter-agency collaboration’, and
‘partnerships’, yet they inevitably fall short in
setting out how programs are to achieve their
objectives. Perhaps I am being too cynical but
there seems to be an inverse relationship between
urban policy aspiration and implementation.
Item Details
Item Type: | Review Single Work |
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Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Urban and regional planning |
Research Field: | Housing markets, development and management |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Public services policy advice and analysis |
UTAS Author: | Jacobs, KA (Professor Keith Jacobs) |
ID Code: | 86184 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2013-08-28 |
Last Modified: | 2015-09-01 |
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