Humanities and Social Sciences

Sydney Futures Twilight Symposium

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Symposia details

Held every 6 weeks from June 2006 - March 2007, the University of Technology Sydney Faculties of Design, Architecture & Building, & Humanities and Social Sciences, sponsored by Trans/forming Cultures, the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils and the Council of the City of Sydney present the Sydney Futures Twilight Symposium.

Full details of the past and forthcoming Sydney Futures Twilight Symposia can be accessed here.


Sydney Opera House

Working Papers

Each session of the Sydney Futures Twilight Symposium will be addressed by a leading figure in the field - planners, advocates, academics and social critics, who will identify and analyse the issues and look for solutions. A sample of the collected papers and PowerPoint presentations will be hosted here as the symposia progress.

In addition, there is a Sydney Futures Twilight Symposium Blog, which attendees and members of the public are encouraged to contribute to.

1. Planning the metropolis - after Metroplan [1 June 2006]
John Mant: 'The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy' [Pdf]
Glen Searle: 'Is the City of Cities Strategy the Answer for Sydney?'[Pdf] [Powerpoint]

 

2. Keeping the local in the global city: LEPs [6 July 2006]
Cr Genia McCaffrey: 'Power and Politics in Local Planning' [Pdf]
Michael Neustein: 'Urban Planning: Too important for local government' [Pdf]

 

3. Creating the City: arts, culture and the cosmopolis [24 August 2006]
Peter A. Murphy: Creativity and Urban Economic Development [Pdf] and Powerpoint

 

4. Sydney's Global Future - how unequal can it be? [28 September 2006]
Andrew Jakubowicz: 'Social Justice and the City' [Pdf] and Powerpoint