(Sub)Urban Dreamscapes/Nightmares: From Blandscapes to Brutopianscapes

Perth is a (sub)urban city characterised by a high-density urban core and low-density housing in the middle and outer rings. But things are changing, and changing rapidly, especially in morphological terms. Perth is now characterised by a dynamic evolving mosaic of (sub)urban landscapes: ‘blandscapes’; ‘blendscapes’; ‘brutalscapes’; and, ‘brutopianscapes’. This raises questions as to whether we are living in a suburban dream or nightmare.

Associate Professor Paul Maginn is an urban geographer/planner and the Director of the UWA Public Policy Institute. His research focuses on the intersections of people, place, policy and politics on the 4 ‘S’s – strategic planning, suburbanisms, the sex industry, and submarines.

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