Making Believe: Institutional and Discursive Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Two Australian Cities

摘要: The main focus of this paper is the complex 'storylines' justifying transport infrastructure policy. We use term 'discourse network' to describe specific set storylines and arguments that coordinate action in a particular policy domain. 'knots' network are related discursive threads argument, 'nodes' institutional structures binding people together, sometimes places, for close communication. Our empirical frame compares domains Australia's two largest cities, Sydney Melbourne, past four decades. find both cities--whilst hardly conducive sustainability--have by no means constituted unified ideology. evidence discourse networks contexts have been loosely woven nets comprised strands part truth, fiction quasi-arguments generated from different professional sources with some ways conflicting ideologies. There significant variation...