Investigating Sydney's Sustainable Urban Development and Resilience

This case study analyzes Sydney's approach to sustainable urban development and resilience, drawing upon the "Resilient Sydney" strategy. It begins by referencing Mayor Martin J. Walsh's speech, highlighting the importance of community involvement in decision-making and addressing inequali...Read More

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Case study
The speech by Mayor Martin J. Walsh suggests that Boston’s resilience on the basis of
the people-centered city includes the community in the decision-making process. The resilience
planning in Boston on equality is reflected by racial equity and social justice. It has shown a high
level of access to community employment education and opportunities (Haughton, 2017 p.189).
Boston is one of the cultural and economic centered cities with Sydney history. Despite the fact
that many activities in the Boston city have been prospered, there some other important things
left behind. There is a lack of affordable housing, few opportunities in the education sector, poor
infrastructure, inequality issues and poor services. Currently, the city has launched the programs
which will deal with the improvement of the infrastructure, enhance equality within the
community and facilitation of better services. The city has well-programmed training services
that will help the disadvantaged communities advance in the growing industries. In addition, this
will promote equity within the city. On issues related to the inequitable growth, the Boston city
has responded through demonstrating a well-organized integration to emergencies. Boston
relates to Sydney in the concept of dealing with inequality through evaluation of the metro
context. On resilient, Boston has no single method used to build the redundancy (Morrison, 2002
p.145).
The residences in Boston are connected to one another by resilient infrastructure systems.
These are aimed at meeting the needs of the families and residents of Boston. The connection of
the communities is one of the activities that Boston has been prepared for since 2014. On the
case of the services, it has an intergenerational program that enhances wealth-building
opportunities for accessibility of all resident of the Boston (Jenks, 2010 p.1). In reflection of the

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speech by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the program is aimed at making sure that nobody is living in
fear of dislocation or inequality in the education sector.
The proposed project in Sydney
Information and analysis
Resilience/sustainability challenge is the initiatives taken in developing the new solution
frameworks to transform and recovery from certain issues. It is steps taken for the
encouragement of the sustainability of the city or community (Zhao, 2009 p.134). It has
impacted the Sydney through facilitating the better frameworks taken for the betterment of the
Sydney outlook. Through resilience/sustainability challenges Sydney has come up with aligned
action plans that enable people to work closely in their homes. There has been improvements
inaccessibility to health precincts. In addition, there have been developments of the community
capacity by co-design (Chen, 2018 p.15). In connection to this, an advocate of affordable
housing has been enhanced to every resident in Sydney. Finally, the resilience/sustainability
challenge process has led to the development of equity skills in Sydney.
Proposed solution
Sydney should address the Resilience/sustainability challenge by coming up with the
action plans. Some of the Sydney should come up with in relation to the people-centered city
framework is flagship actions. This action plan should involve a resilient growth target inclusive.
The action should be taken on shocks and the stress by developing the management growth plan.
This should be enhanced by consideration of the economic and social-cultural risks by use of the

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community plan (Bebbington, 2009 p.209). In addition, resilience/sustainability challenges
should be addressed through supporting actions in Sydney by coming up with the network of the
metropolitan ways of practitioners for the community agency. There should be collective
leadership to initiate the strategic decision-making frameworks within Sydney. There should be
established cross-city collaborative active transport for improvement of the health and
transportation methods during the crisis period.
The target group in this proposal is the government and the community organizations
especially in Sydney metropolitan. These groups of the audience are pledged to build their
capacity to manage and understand the vulnerabilities and risks everyone is exposed in Sydney
(Alberti, 2016 p.381). In taking the commitment, there should be established continuity as well
as safety mechanisms for local communities, employees and customers. The policy level beyond
this included demonstration of the innovation as well as leadership for the improvement of the
living standards of the community members. The strategies for reduction of the stress within the
Sydney community should be encouraged. The community is invited to participate in the
changes involving the Sydney city.
The proposal will implement by the project management team by investigating and
understanding how the stress causes Sydney metropolitan. It can be implemented by the measure
of the community risks which may impact the project. In addition, the engagement of the people
in Sydney should be implemented in the decision making the process. There should be a clear
role of resilient regarding the Sydney city. In addition, there should be the training of the
community on the importance of the implementations sought to be made by the project. It will be
easy for the project to be implemented if the education on the importance of the proposed planed

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is educated to the community (Vaziri, 2012 p.115). Moreover, it can be implemented through the
development of the action plan that will be adopted in coming with better resilience frameworks.
The time frame for the project should start within 6 months but the improvements are
scheduled to be completed by the year 2020. There are set strategies that will be followed for the
establishment of the achievement of the set plan within the shortest time possible. The training of
the community about the implemented policies and the action plans is scheduled to take about 5
months. Within a period of 1 year, the project should be ready to be proposed before the
government for the implementations. The project will be allowed a maximum of the three
months to be approved by the government. Upon approval, the project manager will take about 4
months to set the financial frameworks of the project. The action plan of the project will start by
evaluating the challenges faced by the community. This will help the project management teach
have a better concept on what to start within the scheduled time.
There are various resources that will be required for the success of the project. The main
resources required in this project are the funds. Capita will be required to drive various action
plans for the project. There is a need for the network as well as share resources that will be
required for the evaluation of the project process. The survey contacted should be supported by
the funds and therefore the project should be well funded for its success (Jabareen, 2016 P.38).
There should be facilitator resources such as technological resources that should be provided for
effective monitoring and evaluating the process of the resilience Sydney. New technology
devices will be required for online surveys through community members in Sydney. The
resources will be required for better operation of all action plans of the project. The
approximate cost for the resources required by the project will be $54.8 million. This amount

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will be required for the purchase of the required resources (Drakakis-Smith, 2015 p.659). In
addition, there will be a need for the payment of the personnel involved in enhancing all action
plans of the project. In connection to this, engagement of the new technology will cost about
$1.2 million through the purchase of the online supporting devices for online interview of the
communities’ requirements and experiences.
The action plans will be prioritized through coming with the strategic coordination of what
should be done. This will enhance by the building and sharing of the understanding of the
challenges facing the resilient Sydney action plans. The identification will be a better way to
understand what action to start with and which to be last. The action to be taken mainly depends
on the cost of operation and the financial planning of the project. In connection to this, there will
be an evaluation of the complexity of the action plan set in the project. In addition, identification
of the stakeholders will enhance the determination of which action plan to be started with. This
involved the determination of the government policies and funding plans for the strategic actions
of the project. There are some barriers to prioritizing the action plans in this project. There are
some dilemmas in deciding the process of working together in the action plan. Economic barriers
are growing in this century due to low capital resourcing (Zhang, 2011 p.17). Connecting the
integrate resilience in the decision-making process is becoming a major barrier in this. The
barriers can be avoided by coming with a comprehensive framework showing which
stakeholders should be involved in which activity. In addition, the financial resources should be
gathered before starting the project to avoid the capital break down.
The outcomes sought to be achieved in this project is improve the living standards of the
people to be able to access better transport networks, have better education programs, increase

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the employment opportunities and better and cheap housing. Sydney is one of the cities with the
highest housing rental pricing in the world. It is approximated that the medium house price of the
housing in Sydney is about 13 times the individual income (Steinberg and Lindfield, 2012 p.23).
This is too expensive and therefore the project is aimed to propose the lowering of the housing
pricing in Sydney within a short period of time. On equality issues, there have been issues of
discrimination in terms of the fairness in education sectors and job opportunities sectors in
Sydney. The project is aimed at equalizing all people to have standardized access to the services.
The long term outcome of the project includes proper infrastructure and better effective services
to the community. The outcomes programs both short time and long time are expected to cost
about $19.4 million (Rabinovitch, 2012 p.62). The benefits of the accessed outcomes will
improve the lives of people in Sydney. There will be discrimination on the way people receive
the services. Everyone in Sydney will be exposed to equal job opportunities. Students will be
offered with a quality education that will help to attain the required job requirements.
The proposal links and compliments with the initiatives aimed at seeking the address of
the sustainability/resilience challenges faced in Sydney though action plans implemented. The
proposed action plans for the project indicates that the project is linking with what address of the
challenges facing Sydney. In addition, the solution to the challenges indicates that the project is
on the right side of what should be addressed (Li, 2010 p.131). The project tick more than one
box by implementing more than one action plans to be followed in the project. This shows that
the project is focusing on various issues in relation to sustainability/resilience challenges in
Sydney. This is a better way to understand how the project is valid in dealing with the challenges
affecting the Sydney community.

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Risk assessment
There are assessments associated with the disaster preparedness frameworks in building
awareness regarding the disaster on resilience challenges in Sydney. In the construction of the
infrastructures, there is risk associated which involves the emerging risks. Planning risks are
possibly encountered in this project especially the general training risks. The risk will be
evaluated through working with the Sydney OEM team for the support of the urban-based
improvement frameworks (Gao and Newman, 201 P.82). The financial risks are so high in this
project because most the action plans need too much capital for implementation. The financial
risk may arise mostly when the government fails to provide financial support as proposed in the
project. This can bring many things to stop and the whole process in the project affected. In
connection to this, there should be a back up a financial framework in case one source fails to
avoid the failure of the project. There should be consideration of the multiple stresses that can be
encountered in the broad risks assessment. The financial and disaster risks cost framework is
approximated to be about $14.8 million and therefore they should avoid by all costs (Lonie, 2010
P.78). The importance of understanding the risks and ways to prevent them will be important in
this project. This will prevent the failure of the aim and mission of the project. Politically the
project should understand the legal frameworks of the government. Social-cultural risks should
be prevented through an understanding of the needs and culture of the communities before
implementing the changes in their lives.

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