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来源

URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH,Vol.36,Issue1,P.1-10

语言

英文

关键字

Urban research; public debate; research impact; urban policy; GEOGRAPHY; POLITICS

作者单位

[Gurran, Nicole] Univ Sydney, Sch Architecture Design & Planning, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Gurran, N (reprint author), Univ Sydney, Sch Architecture Design & Planning, Sydney, NSW, Australia. E-Mail: nicole.gurran@sydney.edu.au

摘要

This review examines relationships and tensions between urban research and policy impact, drawing on the inaugural Public Cities Lecture at the State of Australian Cities Conference 2015 in honour of the late Paul Mees. It examines the different ways Australian urban researchers are questioning, engaging with and contributing to public policy-and the relative influence of this work in relation to the range of other sources of information now seeming to dominate public debate. Despite a desolate funding environment and a hollowing of demand from government and political leaders for independent research, the varied forms of public scholarship canvassed in this review do suggest an evolution rather than atrophy of urban research in Australia. The question is how we advance, and equally importantly, critically evaluate our changing roles and contributions beyond the usual metrics of academic citations, to help inform, and reform, the parameters of policy debate and action.