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Selective memories, sanitised futures: constructing visions of future place in inner Sydney

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posted on 2023-05-19, 17:18 authored by Searle, G, Jason ByrneJason Byrne
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

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Copyright 2002 Editorial Board, Urban Policy and Research

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