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Housing Differentiation and Renewal in Middle-ring Suburbs: The Experience of Sydney, Australia

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  • Bill Randolph
  • Robert Freestone

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Many suburban areas in Australian cities built between the 1930s and 1960s are facing major challenges from socio-demographic change, ageing housing, long-term disinvestment and entrenched pockets of social disadvantage. Yet despite emerging relative disadvantages, these middle ring or ‘third city’ suburbs are experiencing locally generated piecemeal market-led reinvestment and renewal. This paper explores housing, household and housing investment characteristics and trends in the older parts of Sydney’s western suburbs drawing on analyses of socio-demographic and development application data. Policy options to achieve more appropriate urban renewal outcomes under broad social sustainability criteria are canvassed. Similarities and differences to the American ‘first suburb’ phenomenon are noted.

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  • Bill Randolph & Robert Freestone, 2012. "Housing Differentiation and Renewal in Middle-ring Suburbs: The Experience of Sydney, Australia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(12), pages 2557-2575, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:49:y:2012:i:12:p:2557-2575
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098011435845
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    1. Mike Berry & Tony Dalton & Anitra Nelson, 2011. "The Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Housing and Mortgage Markets in Australia: A View from the Vulnerable," Chapters, in: Ray Forrest & Ngai-Ming Yip (ed.), Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis, chapter 8, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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