Essential Sydney - Benchmarking our progress
Sydney Progress Report Released
According to the report’s collaborators, Professor Ed Blakely of the Planning Research Centre and Dr David Poole of of UDIA, Essential Sydney will be a valuable information tool for anyone with an interest in Sydney’s global future.
“While we constantly hear about studies examining some aspects of the city’s life and taskforces looking at other dimensions, this is the first time that all of the crucial elements of Sydney’s progress have been included in a single, objective, and user-friendly report”, Professor Blakely said.
“Building on the globe’s best studies of other cities, such as New York’s Long Island Index, the team at the Planning Research Centre has produced what is arguably one of the finest pieces of urban analysis ever undertaken in the Asia-Pacific. Essential Sydney will positively inform the city’s urban planning and policy decisions in the years ahead”, he said.
For Dr David Poole, the report represents the culmination of the property development sector’s positive efforts to interact with the broader community in objective, reasoned, and evidence-based ways.
“The UDIA was proud to support and participate in the work of an independent and globally respected research centre at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities during the creation of Essential Sydney.
“Great cities can always be improved. Too many industry groups contribute to debates on urban progress through the lenses of their own worldviews and hobbyhorses. We need policies from all three tiers of government which balance the needs of our competing interests and that appropriately consider each of the three fundamental dimensions of community sustainability (economic, environmental and social) in the creation of public policy.
“Essential Sydney will assist all of us to speak from the same page. In addition, it will encourage renewed energy to pursue the goals of Sydney’s Metropolitan Strategy and the creation of new visions as we start to imagine what might be possible in the decades ahead”.
UDIA members were sent a copy of the magazine. If you did not receive a copy, contact udia@udia-nsw.com.au.