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The Sustainable And Entrepreneurial Park? Contradictions And Persistent Antagonisms At Sydney's Olympic Park, Mark Davidson
The Sustainable And Entrepreneurial Park? Contradictions And Persistent Antagonisms At Sydney's Olympic Park, Mark Davidson
Geography
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 …