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Engaging Futures: Futures Methods Transforming Governance
Engaging Futures: Futures Methods Transforming Governance Engaging Futures: Futures methods transforming governance Thesis submitted to the University of the Sunshine Coast For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Colin Russo BBus Communication and Organisational Studies MBus Studies Communication Management Under the supervision of Professor Sohail Inayutullah & Doctor Marcus Bussey Submitted: April 2016 Engaging Futures: Futures Methods Transforming Governance Abstract This thesis for PhD by publication has provided a critical analysis about the foresight methods and processes that help to shape and design city futures in South East Queensland. Causal Layered Analysis is applied to four city visioning initiatives to help clarify the phases of the initiatives and how they might inform futures knowledge. The four South East Queensland councils in this study were responding to the perceived challenges posed by rapid growth. The initiatives aimed first to deliver, explore and shape the multiple opportunities anticipated from this growth, and second to protect against potential threats that unrestrained growth implied. These city futures initiatives devised imaginative city visions and themes that when implemented guided the popular development of whole of city strategies such as cultural, transport and sustainable economic development. A précis of six chapters of the thesis follows. Introduction – Engaging Futures Transforming Governance Chapter 1 of this thesis for PhD by publication presents the argument that futures tools and methods transform governance by influencing the inner (individual and group) systems and outer (local to global) systems of cities, partially via a practice of engaging communities and their stakeholders about preferred futures in light of social, technological, environmental, economic and political issues, trends and future possibilities. -
Anchors Away: Contested Space and Local Resistance on Australia's Gold Coast
Anchors Away: Contested Space and Local Resistance on Australia's Gold Coast Author Southorn, Ed J Published 2020-09-07 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/3950 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397591 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Anchors Away / Southorn ANCHORS AWAY: CONTESTED SPACE AND LOCAL RESISTANCE ON AUSTRALIA’S GOLD COAST Edward J. Southorn Bachelor of Arts; Master of Philosophy (Creative Writing Non-fiction) School of Humanities, Language and Social Science; Arts, Education and Law Griffith University This thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 7 March 2020 1 Anchors Away / Southorn Abstract The neoliberal ascendancy has exacerbated social conflict around urban growth in emergent cities, demonstrating how contested space is a signifier of late modernity. Government officials and elected agents with limited funding for public infrastructure and public services may be forced to choose between retaining public open space or divesting public land to property developers able to access global funding streams. The resultant spatially determined risk generates community debate in which local residents choose between promises of economic security or maintaining publicly accessible sites for recreation and the delivery of public services. In such cases, the collective identity of a particular place may be at stake. This thesis, in two components, explores via a case study of Australia’s largest regional city, how contested space gives rise to local resistance in a battle over the development of public space for private gain. -
Ahead of the Games Pre-Games Report
Ahead of the Games NOVEMBER 2017 Evaluation report for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games legacy program This publication has been compiled by the Office of the Commonwealth Games, Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games. © State of Queensland, 2017. The Queensland Government supports and encourages the dissemination and exchange of its information. The copyright in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY) licence. Under this licence you are free, without having to seek our permission, to use this publication in accordance with the licence terms. You must keep intact the copyright notice and attribute the State of Queensland as the source of the publication. For more information on this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The Queensland Government shall not be liable for technical or other errors or omissions contained herein. The reader/user accepts all risks and responsibility for losses, damages, costs and other consequences resulting directly or indirectly from using this information. Cover image (top right): © Tourism and Events Queensland – Gareth McGuian Current page: © Tourism and Events Queensland – Christian Nott Contents Executive Summary 3 Chapter 4 Inspiring Games 60 Economic Growth and Tourism 3 Introduction 61 Trade 2018 4 Achievements 61 Supporting Queensland Business 4 Opportunities 70 Inspiring Games 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait -
Southport CBD Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
SENSATIONAL Southport CBD Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia www.sensationalsouthport.com.au 1 John Howe Committee for Southport CBD Gold Coast is a significant The nomination of Southport Access to the Light Rail and the long term economic initiative by in 2013 as a Priority Development affordability of new residential the Queensland Government and Area under the Economic products on offer allows for a new the Gold Coast City Council. This Development Queensland Act generation of residents to help initiative will deliver economic has allowed certainty and clarity shape the future fabric of this prosperity to the entire Gold Coast to the development process. historic Gold Coast suburb. and South East Queensland region. This has prompted significant Chinatown and the redevelopment new investment in Southport. Significantly, CBD Gold Coast is of Australia Fair East and West JOHN HOWE centered on Southport, which The amenity of Southport has been are also contributing to the future Committee for Southport celebrates the 100 year anniversary greatly improved by the completion diversity of entertainment and of being proclaimed a town in 2018, of the first stage of the Light Rail the food and beverage product and plays host to key events of the and the ongoing development of in Southport. 2018 Commonwealth Games. the highly popular Broadwater Southport is the greatest long term Parklands. In the past 5 years, Southport has development strategy that the city seen the completion of over 5 We all look forward to the future will undertake. Projects come and billion dollars of instrastructure stages of the Light Rail both north go, however a strong CBD designed within its immediate region.