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  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Peer Reviewed Articles >
      • Landscape of Things
      • Design with (Human) Nature
      • Reconceptualizing Suburban Terracing
      • The Drone's Eye
      • Dis/orientation Machines
      • Mirage of the Metropolis
      • The Garden of Entangled Paths
      • Topographic Urban Innovations
      • Concave Worlds, Artificial Horizons
      • Disciplinary Convergence
      • The Usefulness of Uselessness
      • Hyper-Realism / Loose-Reality
      • Emergence of Suburban Terracing
      • Red Loops / Green Links
      • Topographically Sensitive Urbanism
      • Design for Decline
      • Green Networks
      • De/framed Visions
      • Thin Parks / Thick Edges
    • Professional Articles >
      • Things that Matter
      • The Shape of Things
      • Aerial Reconnaissance
      • Fields of Decline
      • Fluid Geographies
      • High Fidelity
      • Hong Kong, Grounded
      • Design Liquidity
      • Satellites' Progeny
      • Route Fittko
      • Ecologies of Spectacle
      • Grounding Urbanism
      • Garden of Resistance
      • De/framed Gardens
      • Leaping Bridges, Forking Paths
      • The Paradox of Place
      • Is Landscape...? Book Review
    • Book Chapters >
      • Cultivating the City
      • Aerial Visions / Ground Control
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    • Public Gardens >
      • The Garden of the Forking Paths
      • Imprint Garden
    • Urban Parks >
      • Fremantle Esplanade
      • Park Rabet Leipzig
      • Centennial Park Sydney
      • Father Collins Park Dublin
    • Urban Design >
      • Kings Square Fremantle
      • Bahnhofsvorplatz Wiesbaden
      • Claremont Oval Perth
      • Fremantle Entry Strategy
    • Linear Parks >
      • Green Line Toronto
      • Rails to Kale San Francisco Bay
      • Emscher River Ruhrgebiet
      • Grünzug Leinefelde
    • Architectural Landscapes >
      • White Lakes Baldivis
      • The Peninsula Perth
      • CBD Courts Perth
      • Freiheit Zentrum Bern
      • Bavaria Hamburg
      • Red Bluff Quobba Station
    • Memorials >
      • Reconciliation Place Canberra
      • Gallipoli Peace Park
    • Speculative Infrastructures >
      • The Living Wall Esperance
      • The Galehouse Fremantle
      • The Darkhouse Cockatoo Island
      • Primate Enclosure Kings Park
    • Datascapes >
      • Urban Growth Scenarios 2050 Perth
      • Mapping Perth Metropolitan area
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Suburban Studio
Ocean Reef Suburban Development, Perth Australia

Perth is one of the most suburbanised cities on the planet.  Far from being independent competing forces, sprawl and infill are components of the same phenomenon.  As cities expand, more affordable housing is displaced to the periphery, which in turn leaves inner city areas ripe for gentrification.  As inner city areas are redeveloped several processes unfold.  Firstly, undesirable or extensive land uses such as light industry are forced to relocate out of inner urban areas.  Secondly, the gentrifying classes typically occupy more residential floor space per person, so even with additional inner city accommodation, actual population often decreases.  Finally, displaced non-residential land uses and lower socio-economic classes find refuge in the periphery.  Simultaneously infilling and sprawling, the city turns itself inside out.
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Liam Butt
But this process is based upon a number of premises; firstly, that there is an infinite amount of land for release, which there is not, for as we will see in studio, Perth is more highly constrained than it appears.  The second premise is that this land is inert and ‘undeveloped’ which it is not, since it is often endemic coastal heath land with great ecological value.  Thirdly, the culture of suburban expansion fails to account for the social ramifications of a mega suburbanised, undifferentiated city.  Understanding these processes with a critical, but not judgmental eye is an important component in the education of a landscape architect.
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Liam Butt
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Liam Butt
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Vanessa Margetts
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Vanessa Margetts
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Vanessa Margetts
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Sylvia Volesky