Agendas in place
Subtitle: urban and cultural planning for cities and regions
By: Deborah Stevenson.
Contributors: Central Queensland University. Rural Social and Economic Research Centre.
Publisher: Rural Social and Economic Research Centre, Central Queensland University
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Rockhampton, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: City planning -- Australia.; Urban policy -- Australia.; City planning -- Australia -- Newcastle (N.S.W.); Urban policy -- Australia -- Newcastle (N.S.W.); Australia -- Cultural policy.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 150-173.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Identities and place; title: 2. A very suburban nation : The production of  a suburban landscape ; Australian cities of imagination ; Form follows function ; City beautiful and garden city ideals ; The government of urban space ; Posing the urban question ; Federal urban policy in Australia; title: 3. Post-Fordism and the city : Urban sociology and the post-theory city ; The landscape as text ; Post-Fordism and the emergence of the world city ; Economic change and urban decline ; Reimaging the urban bazaar ; Faith, hope and a festival marketplace ; Dreaming 'better cities'; title: 4. Honeysuckle, Newcastle: Reimaging the industrial city : The 'Cinderella City' ; A partnership for the future ; Forty-five hectares of opportunity ; The masterplan ; Inventing a place called Honeysuckle ; Selling the vision ; The local media ; Building a 'better' city or zoning for entrprise?; title: 5. Cultural planning and urban redevelopment : The promise of cultural planning ; Reimagining urbanism? ; The anti-urbanism of the rural idyll ; The cultural 'heart' of the city ; Planning cities and creating citizens ; Cultural planning and economic development ; 'Best practice' in urban renewal; title: 6. Civial society and the local state : New times and citizenship ; Planning, participation and consultation ; Recasting the debate ; Civil society, local government and the regional city; title: 7. Conclusion: Making a place in the reimagined city.