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Privatisation, property and planning: the remaking of Canberra Airport

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  • Robert Freestone
  • Ilan Wiesel

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This article examines the story of Canberra Airport's transformation from a dilapidated aviation facility to a world-class small ‘airport city’ juxtaposing aeronautical and non-aeronautical land uses with a critical focus on the tensions with established planning and corporate institutions. The analysis is framed within five main discourses: the global entrepreneurial turn in airport development towards mixed use precincts; neoliberal government policies welcoming private investment and management within the public sphere and notably airport privatisation from the mid-1990s; the rise of airport real estate markets and the singular role of a local development company in the case of Canberra; a new governance regime privileging the commonality of federal privatised airports, but excluding state, territory and local determinations; and the specificity of the setting of Canberra as a national capital and city having to adapt to the dynamic impacts of a new development typology. The comprehensive redevelopment of Canberra Airport since the late 1990s highlights both strengths and shortcomings in public policy.

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  • Robert Freestone & Ilan Wiesel, 2015. "Privatisation, property and planning: the remaking of Canberra Airport," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1), pages 35-54, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:36:y:2015:i:1:p:35-54
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2014.981053
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