Abstract
Regeneration is conventionally associated with inner-city environments. However the ageing of middle-ring suburbs has encouraged a new round of activities aimed at suburban regeneration, including mixed-use retailled regeneration focused on a town centre (Randolph and Freestone 2008; Ruming et al. 2010; Newton 2010). Such strategies involve strengthening the town centre through master planning retail redevelopment, improvements to public transport and the public domain, and increasing the density of housing around the shopping centre and transport hub. In the Australian context, this overlaps with a thrust for polycentric cities (more recently Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘30-minute city’) driven by the use retail development as a lever for the formation or revitalisation of a town centre, creating financing vehicles for public infrastructure investment and public domain improvements, providing employment opportunities, increasing housing supply (including affordable housing), and transit oriented development (Chapter 2).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Urban regeneration in Australia |
| Subtitle of host publication | policies, processes and projects of contemporary urban change |
| Editors | Kristian Ruming |
| Place of Publication | London ; New York |
| Publisher | Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group |
| Pages | 268-294 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315548722, 9781317003496 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781472471635 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |