Can Growth Be Planned? The Case of Melbourne’s Urban Periphery

• Published in: Journal of planning education and research Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 1835 - 1851
• Main Authors: Phelps, Nicholas A., Nichols, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-09-2024; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Peri-urban areas; Urban development; growth management; 不确定性; 不可逆转性; 发展管理; uncertainty; incertidumbre; interrelatedness; 城市边缘; periferia urbana; indivisibilidades; interrelación; Gestión del crecimiento; 相互关联性; irreversibilidad; urban fringe; irreversibility; indivisibilities; 不可分割性
• ISSN: 0739-456X; 1552-6577
• DOI: 10.1177/0739456X221121248

Growth may have a logic of its own that results in the unplanned appearance of development at the urban fringe. We summarize the challenges of planning for growth at the urban periphery in terms of the uncertainty, irreversibility, interrelatedness, and indivisibilities surrounding development decisions. Drawing on original research, we illustrate the growing pains of metropolitan Melbourne. We underline the challenges to public planning’s spatial logic of placemaking and sequencing but also the innovation apparent in the face of contemporary growth of new speed and spatial extent.