Is strategic planning in Sydney becoming 'relational'?

摘要: Planning theorists have increasingly argued for more ‘relational’ strategic plans that are conceptual rather than deterministic, with an emphasis on nodes and flows. Contemporary city strategies in Europe incorporated this approach, but metropolitan Australia remained very detailed reflecting historical institutional other development circumstances. Nevertheless situation might be changing. The NSW state government’s recent Metro2036 strategy Sydney City Council’s Sustainable 2030 both place relational planning features at their centre, notably the global economic corridor former five themes constitute Strategy Map latter. paper examines rationale role of these elements two strategies. In particular, it investigates advantages cases a approach has over blueprint-inspired designations. Finally considers whether approaches likely to become common Australian strategies, when set against historic ability governments use powers infrastructure control specify detail type, scale location development.