Perth as a 'big' city: Reflections on urban growth

The bigness of cities has attracted much attention from urban academics and professionals whose perspective may be divided into two camps: productive science using agglomeration-based analysis or impact science using anxiety-based analysis. The two approaches need to be joined in order to resolve is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49815
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Summary:The bigness of cities has attracted much attention from urban academics and professionals whose perspective may be divided into two camps: productive science using agglomeration-based analysis or impact science using anxiety-based analysis. The two approaches need to be joined in order to resolve issues of urban 'bigness', and in this article the growth of Perth is used to illustrate the potential and challenges of this integration.