THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DREAM - THEORY

THE PLANNER'S VISION - THEORY

• Quarter Acre Blocks
• Nuclear Families
• Dog
• Two or More Cars
• Fresh Air & Space
• Beaches & Barbies
• No Worries
• Neighbours
• A Great Place to Raise Kids

• Thriving Commercial Centres
• Short Journeys to Work
• New Development Areas
• Universal Public Transport
• Distributed Social Services
• Isolated Heavy Industry
• Nature Parks
• High Densities Along Transit Corridors
• Equity

TECHNOPOLIS

THE FUNDAMENTAL CITY

• Rampant Telematics
• High-Tech Industries
• Investment in Higher Education
• University of the Pacific Rim
• Home Work, Telecommuting, Televillages
• Smart Vehicles, Smart Roads
• Automated Public Transport
• Dial-a-Ride
• Silicon Creek : Canberra-Sydney-Newcastle
• Leading Edge Environmental Protection
• Leading Edge Recycling Industry
• Robotics in Manufacturing
• Energy Efficiency
• Dual Water Supply

• Sustainability (social, environmental and financial)
• Human-ness
• Economic Development
• Equity
• Robustness in Respect to Future Change

THE GREEN CITY

THE PRODUCTIVE CITY

• Trees
• Clean Water, Clean Air
• Bicycles
• Pavement Cafes
• Grow Your Own Veg
• Sustainable Development
• Clean Car Engines
• Solar Power
• Light Rail, Gas-Driven Buses
• Road-Rail Freight Interchanges
• Disappearance of Smokestack Industry
• Individual Responsibility
• Biodiversity
• Intergenerational equity
• Ecocentric ethic

• Centre for Pacific Trade and Commerce, Freight Movement a Priority, Result-Oriented Workforce, Efficient Use of Resources, 24-Hour Transport Networks, Satellite Monitoring of Freight, Import Substitution
• Abolition of Restrictive Practices, Enterprise Bargaining, Lean Mean Waterfront and Freight Interchanges, Flexitime
• Post-Extractive Processing Industries, Bush-City Economic Integration, Good Port & Airport Access, Bulk Exported in Australian Bottoms
• Commercial Legal and Administrative Services, Universal EDI, Integration with Asia
• World Class Tourism Development/Marketing, Recreation and Sport Industries, Olympic Village, Effective Public Transport Hierarchy

THE PRIVATISED CITY

THE CONTAINED CITY

• User Pays
• Deregulation
• Large-Scale Integrated Urban Developments
• Competitive Marketing By Developers
• Pacific Headquarters of Multinationals
• Disposal or Corporatisation of Government Enterprises
• Reduction of All Tiers of Government
• Red Tape Purge
• Transparency in CSO's

• Super-CBD from Mascot to Gordon
• Western Sydney a Dormitory Area
• Fewer Suburban Stations, Faster Trains
• Long-Distance Commuting from beyond Cumberland Plain
• Centralisation of Social and Cultural Facilities
• Western Sydney Greenfield Development Taboo
• High Density Development Around Harbour
• Intensification of Middle Sydney Around Transport Corridors
• Increase in Dual Occupancy
• Greater Social Variegation
• Regeneration of Inner Areas

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DREAM - PRACTICE

THE PLANNER'S VISION - PRACTICE

• Long Journeys to Work
• Road Congestion
• Rail Overcrowding
• Absence of Effective Local Public Transport
• Latch-Key Children
• Social Tension
• Quality Differentials Escalate
• Punitive Mortgages
• Central Employers Unable to Staff Businesses
• Deteriorating Air and Water Quality
• Severance of Neighbourhoods by Traffic
• Blight
• Immigrant Ghettos
• Outer Area Social/Cultural Deprivation

• Deficient Infrastructure Perpetuates Pattern
• No Circuit-Breakers
• Inappropriate Institutional Structures
• High Operating Subsidy
• Local-Central Government Contention
• No Incentives for Employers to Expand/Relocate
• Concentration on CBD
• Workers Disenfranchised from Public Transport
• Absence of Strategic Planning
• Efficiency not Effectiveness
• Electoral Cycles Cripple Policy Consistency
• Red Tape, Kerb and Gutter Issues, Pork-Barrelling, Ratbaggery

FADED GLORY

THE REGULATED CITY

• Lack of Appropriate Skills in Workforce
• Flight by Employers
• Exodus to Queensland
• Suburbs of Couch Potatoes
• Urban Decay
• Hand-to-Mouth Small Businesses
• Protected Industry
• High Living Costs
• Poor Quality
• Chip on Shoulder
• Resentment of Immigrants
• Loss of Sea Trade to Queensland/Land Bridge
• Collapse of Tourist Trade

• Strong Government Control
• Council Powers on Zoning Taken Over By State
• New Council Powers Invented
• Restrictions on Car Use and Parking
• Australia Card
• Doublethink and Political Correctness
• Proliferation of Police and Quasi-Police
• Docile Population (Singapore Model) ...
• or Official Corruption, Double Standards, Black Economy (Soviet/African Model)

THE THIRD-WORLD CITY

THE DIVIDED CITY

• Inability to Pay for Quality Imports
• Makeshift Local Products
• Dominance by Entrepreneurial Immigrants
• Population Numbers Swamp Infrastructure
• Declining Health and Education Standards
• Teeming Millions
• Shack Cities
• Growth of Superstition

• Accentuated Divisions and Tension Between Rich and Poor
• Low Income Ghettoes
• Filth
• Crime
• Drugs
• Harbour/North Shore an Enclave for the Rich
• Booming Security Industry
• Walled Residential Development
• Gun Ownership Increase
• Strains Within Lower Ranks
• Declining Work Opportunities for Poor
• Declining Security and Standards for Rich
• Return of Servants
• Street Kids

NATURE'S REVENGE

• Fouled Waterways
• Toxic Air
• Insect-Borne Plague
• Soil Degradation
• Ozone Hole
• Carcinogenic Sunshine
• Blue-Green Algae
• Rising Sea Level
• Accumulated Rubbish
• Choking
• Poisoning
• Mutation
• Extinction of Intelligence
• World Inherited by Cockroaches