The contemporary remaking of inner city Pyrmont–Ultimo in Sydney is analysed in terms of the visions of planners, developers, politicians and residents. Developers and government agencies selectively remembered the blue-collar history of this place in their place marketing efforts. These ‘memories’ were sanitised to make them more appealing to contemporary lifestyle-oriented residential markets. The need to sanitise and repackage particular urban places can be regarded, following Bourdieu, as a strategy of the field of planners and developers, as they struggle to gain ascendency in the game of land and property development. Their ‘feel for the game’, it is argued, is reflective of a ‘planning habitus’.
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Publication title
Urban Policy and Research
Volume
20
Pagination
7-25
ISSN
0811-1146
Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Australia
Rights statement
Copyright 2002 Editorial Board, Urban Policy and Research