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Master planned estates : parish or panacea?

journal contribution
posted on 2010-12-01, 00:00 authored by Louise JohnsonLouise Johnson
Master planned estates in Australia emerge from two major directions: one aims to address the inadequacies of 1970s suburbanisation and the other comes from governments and developers seeking to realise alternatives. The very idea of master planning has a longer history, one that arguably dates back to 19th-century Utopian Socialism and Baron Haussmann's redesign of Paris, which involved a large-scale, comprehensive alternative vision realised by a sanctioned authority. Master planning thereby partakes of both utopianism and authoritarianism. These associations have infused the discussion and construction of Australian master planned estates rendering them both pariah and panacea. But research and my own experience suggests that they are far more panaceas than pariahs.

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Journal

Urban policy and research

Volume

28

Issue

4

Pagination

375 - 390

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Australia

ISSN

0811-1146

eISSN

1476-7244

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Taylor & Francis