Renewing the Compact City
Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment in a complex multi-stakeholder environment.
This research project investigated a key challenge facing city planners in Australia over the next 30 years: how to renew older areas of multi-unit housing, providing not only economically but also socially viable solutions within a market context and enable all players –developers, policymakers and residents – to benefit from the coming city redevelopment.
The research had three main aims:
1. To identify the location, scale, market value and social profiles of the strata sector in designated urban renewal areas across greater metropolitan Sydney.
2. To establish the issues raised by strata renewal: legal, financial and institutional hurdles, market drivers, consumer perspectives and attitudes.
3. To assess the process of termination and renewal for socially equitable outcomes.
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Troy L; Easthope H; Randolph B; Pinnegar S, 2017, '‘It depends what you mean by the term rights’: strata termination and housing rights', Housing Studies, vol. 32, pp. 1 - 16, .
Troy L; Randolph B; Pinnegar S; Easthope H, 2015, 'Planning the End of the Compact City?', in Burton P; Shearer H (ed.), State of Australian Cities Conference 2015: Refereed Proceedings, State of Australian Cities Research Network, Gold Coast, presented at State of Australian Cities Conference 2015, Gold Coast, 09 December 2015 - 11 December 2015,Â
Troy L, Randolph B, Crommelin L, Easthope H, Pinnegar S, 2015, Renewing the Compact City: Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment, City Futures Research Centre, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Australia, Sydney, Australia
Troy L; Easthope H; Randolph B; Pinnegar S, 2015, Renewing the Compact City: Interim Report, City Futures Research Centre, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Australia, Sydney, Australia
Randolph B; Troy L; Pinnegar S; Easthope H, 2015, 'Renewing the Compact City: Who can afford it?', presented at State of Australian Cities, Gold Coast, 9 - 11 December 2015
Project status
Complete
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Funded by
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Collaborating partners
Australian College of Community Association Lawyers
NSW Fair Trading
Owners Corporation Network of Australia
Strata Community Association (NSW)
UrbanGrowth NSW
City Futures Wins Planning Institute of Australia Award
14 November 2016
City Futures Research Centre has been awarded the Planning Institute of Australia NSW award for research on ‘Renewing the Compact City: Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment in a complex multi-stakeholder environment’.
The 2016 Award for Planning Excellence was for the ‘Cutting Edge Research and Teaching’ category. Â
The research focused on a key challenge facing city planners in Australia on how to renew older areas of multi-unit housing in the coming decades needed to accommodate population growth, without exacerbating social inequalities and collateral social disruption. The research therefore addresses questions of both feasibility and equity regarding the termination and renewal of strata schemes.
The replacement of older strata blocks has been largely ignored as a planning issue. This is changing with strata blocks now able to be terminated on a 75% majority vote of lot owners. Â In many areas now targeted for renewal, replacing existing multi-unit housing presents a complex challenge and poses significant issues of equity, displacement and erosion of affordable housing stock.Â
Renewing the Compact City is the first systematic research in the world to explore how strata redevelopment can be achieved that is both economically viable and socially fair. Â While the project focused on Sydney, its findings are relevant to other jurisdictions grappling with similar challenges.
Working with community, government and industry partners, this research project represents an exemplary piece of forward looking applied urban planning research, with far reaching implications for the longer term renewal of our urban areas.
City Futures Wins National Planning Institute of Australia Award for Planning Excellence
4 May 2017
City Futures Research Centre has been awarded the Planning Institute of Australia National Award for Planning Excellence for their work on ‘Renewing the Compact City: Economically viable and socially sustainable approaches to urban redevelopment in a complex multi-stakeholder environment’.
The 2017 Award for Planning Excellence was for the ‘Cutting Edge Research and Teaching’ category. Â
The research focused on a key challenge facing city planners in Australia - how to renew older areas of multi-unit housing in the coming decades in order to accommodate population growth, without exacerbating social inequalities and collateral social disruption. The research therefore addresses questions of both feasibility and equity regarding the termination and renewal of strata schemes.
The replacement of older strata blocks has been largely ignored as a planning issue. This is changing with strata blocks now able to be terminated on a 75% majority vote of lot owners. Â In many areas now targeted for renewal, replacing existing multi-unit housing presents a complex challenge and poses significant issues of equity, displacement and erosion of affordable housing stock.Â
Renewing the Compact City is the first systematic research in the world to explore how strata redevelopment can be achieved that is both economically viable and socially fair. Â While the project focused on Sydney, its findings are relevant to other jurisdictions grappling with similar challenges.
Working with community, government and industry partners, this research project represents an exemplary piece of forward looking applied urban planning research, with far reaching implications for the longer term renewal of our urban areas.