Debates on Strategic Urban Planning and City-Region Governance

This conversation essay delves into the realm of strategic urban planning, focusing on the debates surrounding metropolitan governance and city-region development. The essay examines the significance of urban planning and city building in conjunction with effective governance, drawing upon the research and viewpoints of various scholars. It emphasizes the importance of 'city-region' governance to tackle intricate urban planning challenges, particularly in the context of Melbourne. The essay explores diverse perspectives on urban development, the roles of public and private partnerships, and the importance of sustainability. Through an analysis of scholarly articles, the essay concludes that sustainability is a primary goal in contemporary urban development, using Melbourne as a key example due to its high urban population and commitment to sustainable practices. The essay incorporates insights from various researchers, including Griffin, Tomlinson, Maginn, Nguyen, Ahrend, Searle, and Carcach, to provide a comprehensive understanding of urban planning dynamics.

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Introduction
The objective of this conversation essay is to deliver the understanding about the strategic
urban planning with the critically engagement in different debates around metropolitan
governance. These debates are based in the analysis of the city region and development of the
cities according to the developing demands and the requirements of the urban population in
the country. Debate topic in this essay easily understands but when it came to analyse the
importance of this urban development and city building along with the cooperation of the
governance. Many scholars’ present different views and they represent research to make the
debate effective and it leads many challenges for the reader or the listener to make decision
on the correct debate. Hence, this conversational essay will also use the debate that is based
on the secondary research all articles selects for the debate and conversation are selected after
the evaluation and deep analysis. The thesis statement for the debate in this conversation
essay is based on
Debate is based on the arguments why urban scholars are arguing the importance of ‘city-
region’ governance to address many of the complex urban planning challenges we face today
and to examine and explain the key arguments for why Melbourne needs a metropolitan
government explaining why and how this ought to happen.
Prior to moving on the discuss the arguments of the scholars, understanding the term city
region and urban development is essential. The term city region was introduced and used
since 150 that means a metropolitans area that having a shared administration, or deeply it
represents a city that is governed and controlled by multiple administrative units (Harrison &
Hoyler 2014).

TONI L. GRIFFIN in his research “Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White” defines
that as the impact of the city culture, atmosphere and environment is surly reflecting over the
citizens living in it. The conditions of the urban in his city was to manage the difference
between the blacks and white and to remove the poverty from the city and to control the city
functioning in the light of metropolitan government.
Richard Tomlinson in “Metropolitan governance is the missing link in Australia’s
reform agenda” represents that since the early 1990s, Australia might choose to compare
itself engaged in intergovernmental decentralisation because in the Australian country and
city region the responsibility of the Australian government including the finance and treasury
in the federal government (Tomlinson 2016). Neoliberalism and the competitive forces
arising from globalisation are effectively responsible to construct the roads and track-lines to
manage the effective and development with the management of the essential requirements
fulfilments along with the changes there are many developed leaking points are available in
the neoliberalism.
Maginn tries to influence the importance of strategic planning and the impact of making the
urban development programs. Administration in the metropolitan cities is the factor needed
high level of concern because the city is a hub for many people and they are affected with
each and every step of their governing administration (Maginn et al. 2016).
Thi Minh Phuong along with other scholars in “Metropolitan Strategies and Climate
Governance: Towards New Evaluative Approaches” represents that missing or the linking
point is related to the new development approach and that limitation identified by the
scholars, is related to disturbance. Disturbance in the functioning of on-going partnerships
between study the impacts of integrating, planning researchers, and private and community

groups to integrate, administrations and design with health and other factors (Nguyen,
Davidson & Gleeson 2018).
Rudiger Ahrend and others in “The OECD Metropolitan Governance Survey: A Quantitative
Description of Governance Structures in Large Urban Agglomerations” based on a novel data
set it provides an overview about the governance arrangements taking place in OECD
countries, representing the dedication of the organisations whether private or public. They
are essential to have to focus over the metropolitan area governance these have little power to
govern, the powers to identify the better performance in the range of important outcomes
(Ahrend, Gamper & Schumann 2014).
Conversation in the further is taken forward by Searle Glen, and others, in “Metropolitan
strategic planning: An Australian paradigm?” describing metropolitan planning of
Australian paradigm and its characteristics with distinctively reflecting the circumstances of
governance, organisation establishment and absorption on suburban development into
neighbouring countryside. Authors discussed the modern metropolitan planned in Europe
and America managing to found the uniqueness of the Australian paradigm (Searle &
Bunker 2013).
The British colonial period 1788-1901, urban planning in the Australia is aimed to manage,
the sustainability of the urban cities, and as Australia highest numbers of the urbanised
cities and societies in the world. Urban planning is started at all levels of Government in
Australia. Federal Government plays a growing part in setting policy, to determine the overall
response to the changing climate and its adaption with the mitigation strategies (Carcach,
Carlos; 2000).

The challenges possible to arise and faced in the past are related to the population growth and
demographic changes, development of the sustainability in the practices, water sensitive and
development in the urban design, changes in the climate and environment, conservation of
the heritage. Austria has diverse community practise that affect the planning and development
of the government and non-governing bodies, sometimes the effects of private and public
partnership directly made changes and affected the Federal and State governments developing
metropolitan plans (Chan 2012).
Development of the metropolitan plans in the federal and state government is taken as an
effort to discourse some of the negative facets associated with urban growth. Many capital
cities in the country were affianced in making municipal wide longitudinal plans to monitor
expansion over long periods estimated more than 20 years (Moyle et al. 2018). Melbourne
gave the particular emphasis on the rural-urban fringe to develop the hierarchy of urban
centres. Melbourne is one of the five largest cities in rate of population growth and
expansion, many sustainable design in the architecture and structure of the developed urban
plan is visible in the private or public buildings of Melbourne. Many examples of the
sustainable development in Melbourne are Docklands development, Victoria Park , Green
Square and Barrangaroo in Sydney (Tom 2018).
Urban housing development in the Australia and its urban cities includes on a single one level
houses, based on a discrete block of land. Developed tracking of the roads and the
management of the efficient service availability is important in the Melbourne city
development. Public housing and urban development of the effective living stability and
resources availability of the effective urban resources in the country is the main focused point
of the consideration for many scholars (Kuskoff & Mallett 2016).
Conclusion

This conversation debate is discussing and presenting the views of many scholars about their
outlook towards the urban development and the role of the public and private partnership is
disused. Based on the above analysis and discussion of the conversation of many debating
articles, this essay conduces that sustainability in the development is the aim of present time .
The key focused point in many countries, example taken and discussed in this essay is the
Melbourne city of Australia that represent the highest number of the urban residents and
managing the effective governances participating represents the importance of the sustainable
development that collectively make the efforts to manage the effective development in the
city region.

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