'Big Bang' planning and urban design: Imperatives and outcomes in Sydney and Melbourne's old port areas

摘要: This paper uses an exploration of the imperatives that favour contemporary ‘big bang’ urban planning (characterised by large scale, rapid and development processes) to show how this drives production precincts fail deliver high quality design. The key focus on evolution property industry leading very corporations, hegemony financial employment dimensions in current state city-making, related subordination design considerations. situation is contrasted with distilled wisdom foundational contributors thought such as Geddes Jacobs who advocated careful, slow iterative order produce best outcomes. Two case studies are used illustrate paper’s propositions: near-CBD redevelopments Docklands area Melbourne Barangaroo dockside Sydney. In both cases there has been a government scale over relatively short period, where returns have intended pay for infrastructure costs, involved corporations developers drive forward. result each attacked over-scaled professionals local council planners, failed human pedestrian intimacy visual variety, inter alia, characterise adjacent Central Business Districts.