Conference paper
The rise of peri-urban areas in regional development and land use: A South-East Queensland case study
Proceedings of the PRRES Conference 2014
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) Conference: Resilient Communities: Providing for the Future, 20th (Christchurch, New Zealand, 19-Jan-2014–22-Jan-2014)
Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (P R R E S)
2014
Abstract
Despite historic myths and folklore, cities have always dominated Australia's settlement patterns and its economy. This is evidenced by the continued drift of capital and labour to the faster moving urban environments from outlining regional areas. The nature and physical manifestation of regions continues to change like in areas of South-East Queensland. In spite all that, peri-urban expansion theories may prove inadequate to explain such patterns. The state capital, Brisbane dominates; however other centres in the region are now gaining relative importance and adding new dimensions to the region as a whole. The development of a multi-node into greater regions may bring into question relevance of the 'optimum city size' concept, particularly as locational trade-offs and interactions between existing and emerging nodes evolve. A close definition of what constitutes 'peri-urban' areas in such a spatial layout is difficult to establish. To be of greater use, the concept needs to go beyond the traditional definition of simply being the edge of existing development stretching out from a single node and rather to describe it as the balance of any region outside the existing principal centre. As such, the dynamic mixture of dormitory and commuter zones can come together with the recently created 'activity nodes' which is quite different from the traditional centre. This paper summarises research undertaken in South-east Queensland, Australia, one of the fastest growing urban area in the country. It challenges both concepts of optimum size and traditional definitions of peri-urban and describes how the new linkages between existing, dominant cities and distinct, new regional nodes are evolving. It is based on a literature review and structured interviews with key informants together with the author's recent high level involvement both in the state government's 30-year vision called the Queensland Plan and the Sunshine Coast Regional Economic Development Strategy 2013-2033..
Details
- Title
- The rise of peri-urban areas in regional development and land use: A South-East Queensland case study
- Authors
- Michael Hefferan (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the PRRES Conference 2014; 10
- Conference details
- Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) Conference: Resilient Communities: Providing for the Future, 20th (Christchurch, New Zealand, 19-Jan-2014–22-Jan-2014)
- Publisher
- Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (P R R E S)
- Date published
- 2014
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 The Author. Reproduced with permisison.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449058602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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