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  • Metropolitan Planning and NBN: A comparative policy analysis, Sydney vs. Brisbane

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    Alizadeh Fard, Tooran
    Sipe, Neil
    Dodson, Jago
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    Sipe, Neil G.
    Dodson, Jago R.
    Alizadeh Fard, Tooran
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    The Australian government is currently constructing a National Broadband Network (NBN), which at an estimated cost of $43 billion will be Australia's largest ever infrastructure project. The NBN, if its full benefits are to be realized, raises a number of important but to date largely unexplored questions for planning in Australia. This paper investigates the implications of the NBN for Australian metropolitan planning, and the extent and quality of current metropolitan planning in recognizing, planning for, and exploiting the NBN to improve urban outcomes in Australian cities. The paper focuses on the Sydney and Brisbane ...
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    The Australian government is currently constructing a National Broadband Network (NBN), which at an estimated cost of $43 billion will be Australia's largest ever infrastructure project. The NBN, if its full benefits are to be realized, raises a number of important but to date largely unexplored questions for planning in Australia. This paper investigates the implications of the NBN for Australian metropolitan planning, and the extent and quality of current metropolitan planning in recognizing, planning for, and exploiting the NBN to improve urban outcomes in Australian cities. The paper focuses on the Sydney and Brisbane metropolitan areas, and analyzes the major strategic and policy documents shaping the future of these regions during the rollout and post construction periods of the NBN. Sydney's metropolitan strategic documents strongly assert its global position and seek a fair distribution of resources at the local scale. Brisbane, in contrast, is the heart of Australia's fastest growing region (South East Queensland) where metro-regional planning is assisting to facilitate and guide urban growth. A comparative analysis of the strategies and policies for Sydney and Brisbane reveals similarities in their weak stance towards the NBN and telecommunications generally. Some key findings include: a segregation of infrastructure planning and metropolitan planning; a lack of consistency between different policies within each metropolitan area; and policy gaps regarding the role of telecommunications at the metropolitan level. Considering the large size of the NBN investment, this paper is appropriately timed and addresses policy issues that will impact upon future metropolitan planning in Australia.
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    Conference Title
    State of Australian Cities National Conference 2011
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    http://soac.fbe.unsw.edu.au/2011/welcome.html
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2011. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    Land Use and Environmental Planning
    Urban Policy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/43549
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