Glen Searle
Glen Searle is Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney and in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland. He was previously Director of the Planning Programs at the University of Queensland and the University of Technology Sydney, and Deputy Manager, Policy in the NSW Department of Planning. He was Chief Editor of Urban Policy and Research journal from 2005 to 2014. His research focuses on the political economy of metropolitan strategic planning, the regulation of property rights in urban development, and post-industrial metropolitan economic geography. He is editor of Compulsory Property Acquisition for Urban Densification (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region (Routledge, 2013), and co-editor of Global Planning Innovations for Urban Sustainability (Routledge, 2019).
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context has been hindered by several obstacles. The main challenges to be addressed are land amalgamation issues around train stations and the lack of governance arrangements to facilitate the delivery of TODs. This article identifies the main factors contributing to the effective delivery of three Australian TODs. The article is based on the analysis of case studies in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Based on semi-directed interviews with urban stakeholders (planners at the council level and state level, and developers) for each case study and on the analysis of official planning
documents, we analyse the governance arrangements, the planning frameworks and the financial mechanisms that have facilitated the delivery of the case study TODs. We also survey stakeholders to assess the general TOD delivery process and outcomes on different criteria, to better inform TOD policymaking. We find that large sites in single ownership and special state government measures to facilitate development approvals have been critical factors in TOD success.
to solve current sustainability challenges for the three arenas of sustainability: social
sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability.
This edited volume focuses on the politics of sustainability by examining the sociopolitical,
economic and institutional context of urban sustainability innovations
and how this shapes the trade-offs made between the three arenas of sustainability
in the implementation of innovative solutions. As the book analyses the procedural
side of sustainability it offers a new perspective on the implementation of
sustainability that will be useful and attractive to both planning professionals and
academics. The analysis of sustainable solutions to current challenges is centred
on the concept of innovation. Innovative solutions are part of a sustainability
transition process. This process is characterised by contextual factors that are cityspecific.
But this process, in a globalised world, can also be influenced by external
factors (such as urban policies or planning models applied in other contexts) and/
or the networks in which a city might be involved that facilitate the circulation
of planning solutions from one context to another. The book’s structure is based
on the recognition that planning solutions for sustainability cross three arenas: the
social arena, the environmental arena and the urban economic arena. Finally, the
book analyses to what extent planning innovations can be transferred from one
context to another: we thus reference the transferability of innovations.