Sydney as an airport city: another view

摘要

In the last edition of Architecture Bulletin, Bob Meyer wrote about Sydney as an airport city. Rod Simpson agrees ... and disagrees. Here's his alternative. Time to speak again about the unspeakable. Bob Meyer is right in saying there isn't much discussion in the 2006 Metropolitan Strategy about the importance of the airport to the structure of Sydney.This is simply because it is politically too hot. Rational planning for Sydney is continually disrupted by parochial, factional and vested interests. The whole city, and consequently the state's and nation's competitiveness and efficiency suffer as a result. Without planning and intervention, the market prevails, and the market is blind to social consequences.