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Negotiating green urbanism

10/7/2011

 
A consortium of property developers set out to occupy 345 hectares of sea bed near Fremantle Port by claiming that their project, North Port Quay, would demonstrate that the community of  Western Australia could ‘lead the world in sustainable development’. However, this legitimization strategy collapsed by late 2009 after the consortium’s proposed urbanism clashed with pre-existing imagining of Fremantle and environmental sustainability in a discourse of public concerns about the project. This paper describes attempts by the consortium to claim the environmental high ground and their discursive failure in public encounters in Fremantle.

This paper provides insight into how community imagining affects the negotiation of green urbanism.

Click here to read the full article.

The reference is:
Kerr, T. (2011). ‘Negotiating green urbanism in imagined communities’ in the 10th Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship. Oxford, United Kingdom.

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