Co-Director Australian Urban Design Research Centre
The Landscape Urbanism inspired ‘Wungong Landscape Structure Plan’, currently under construction on the fringes of Perth, embodies several innovations concerning Public Open Space provision. These include using a holistic, interconnected open space system as the primary guidelines for development and integrating this open space system with stormwater management functions. However, these innovations have been met with significant resistance from the urban design and planning disciplines, the land development industry, and regulatory bodies. This presentation examines these barriers of implementation to inform future suburban projects which attempt related innovations in public open spaces. The findings allow a critical reflection on the principles undergirding the Wungong Landscape Structure Plan and, on the critiques, ventured in response. This presentation concludes with guidance for how future similar innovations are conceived and how the culture of planning and land development could shift to facilitate innovation.
The 2020 Festival of Landscape Architecture is taking place on Whadjuk Noongar Country. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Whadjuk Noongar Country and Country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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