Geography
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Urban parks have long been used by policy makers to achieve specific policy goals. In recent years, two sets of policy goals have become commonly associated with park planning. The first set of goals can be characterized as being neoliberal, where parks have been built and reformed to generate certain economic and governmental outcomes. The second set of policy goals is associated with sustainability, where parks have been utilized as tools in such things as the mitigation of climate change and community building. The aim of this paper is to examine how these two sets of policy goals have come to coexist. The paper draws upon the case study of Sydney Olympic Park, a self-proclaimed exemplar of both entrepreneurial urban development and sustainability. The paper traces out the functional and institutional changes at the Park in order to read the relationship between neoliberal and sustainability policy goals. While predictable inconsistencies are found between the two sets of policy goals, the paper argues in conclusion that their contradictions have not generated a necessity to resolve their antagonistic relations. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
Publication Title
Urban Geography
Publication Date
2013
Volume
34
Issue
5
First Page
657
Last Page
676
ISSN
0272-3638
DOI
10.1080/02723638.2013.778564
Keywords
neoliberalism, Olympic games, parks, sustainability, Sydney
Repository Citation
Davidson, Mark, "The sustainable and entrepreneurial park? Contradictions and persistent antagonisms at Sydney's Olympic Park" (2013). Geography. 114.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/114
Copyright
This is the post-peer review version of this article.