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Richard Hu
Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, 2617, Australia

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Published: 13 August 2020 in Journal of Urban Management
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In this essay, I employ a crisis-opportunity perspective to approach the practice of smart work and the making of collaborative space in responding and adapting to COVID-19. These trends have been emerging at a faster pace in the recent decade, facilitated by a growing knowledge economy and information technological advancement. COVID-19 provides an extreme setting to test and trigger changes, and are likely to translate these emerging trends into a new normal in the way we work and the way we use space. This new normal, once established in the post-CVOID-19 world, will necessitate a new thinking about workplace management and space design to disrupt many norms rooted in an industrial age.

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Richard Hu. COVID-19, smart work, and collaborative space: A crisis-opportunity perspective. Journal of Urban Management 2020, 9, 276 -280.

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Richard Hu. COVID-19, smart work, and collaborative space: A crisis-opportunity perspective. Journal of Urban Management. 2020; 9 (3):276-280.

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Richard Hu. 2020. "COVID-19, smart work, and collaborative space: A crisis-opportunity perspective." Journal of Urban Management 9, no. 3: 276-280.

Reflective essay
Published: 25 June 2020 in Socio-Ecological Practice Research
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In this essay, I share my experiences and reflections of fighting COVID-19 from the perspective of a resident and a planner living and working in Canberra, Australia. I focus on three themes of building community compassion and collaboration and regard them as potential opportunities deriving from this crisis. First, COVID-19 presents a compulsory situation for establishing a virtual community and practising smart work. Second, COVID-19 helps rediscover a local community and nurture a special community spirit under the social distancing circumstance. Third, COVID-19 creates more opportunities of engaging and understanding nature, interestingly, in a context of staying home. These three themes are in large part rooted in the local communities of a city that is known for low density and being a ‘bush capital’ and possibly suggest some rethinking about the city’s planning legacy.

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Richard Hu. Reinventing community in COVID-19: a case in Canberra, Australia. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 2020, 2, 237 -241.

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Richard Hu. Reinventing community in COVID-19: a case in Canberra, Australia. Socio-Ecological Practice Research. 2020; 2 (3):237-241.

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Richard Hu. 2020. "Reinventing community in COVID-19: a case in Canberra, Australia." Socio-Ecological Practice Research 2, no. 3: 237-241.

Articles
Published: 27 March 2020 in Planning Perspectives
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In the 1960–70s, there was a proposal to expand the administrative border of Canberra into the neighbouring state New South Wales to accommodate long-term population growth and urban development. However, this attempt failed ultimately. This study investigates this ‘remaking’ of the border, and revisits the same issue in the planning and development context of the twenty-first century. It employs three conceptual constructs – ‘bordering’, ‘debording’, and ‘rebordering’ – to draw insights into the nexus between the border’s (re)making, dominant planning thinking, and emerging development process. It uses a mix of primary and secondary sources of data and information collected from the National Archives of Australia, newspaper clippings of The Canberra Times, interviews with planners involved, Australian Census data, and planning literature. It finds that the border expansion proposal was driven by a political advocacy out of a modernist technocratic planning vision for a linear city, and was based on an over-optimistic and mechanical population projection. However, as a highly political initiative, its failure was doomed by political strains and changes, and local community’s concerns. Knowing this history contributes to tackling a similar issue in today’s paradox of a planning paradigm for compactness and sustainability and an emerging development expansion onto the border.

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RichardI Hu. Remaking the border: the proposed border expansion of Canberra in the 1960–70s revisited in the planning and development context of the 21st century. Planning Perspectives 2020, 1 -27.

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RichardI Hu. Remaking the border: the proposed border expansion of Canberra in the 1960–70s revisited in the planning and development context of the 21st century. Planning Perspectives. 2020; ():1-27.

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RichardI Hu. 2020. "Remaking the border: the proposed border expansion of Canberra in the 1960–70s revisited in the planning and development context of the 21st century." Planning Perspectives , no. : 1-27.

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Published: 02 March 2020 in Australian Journal of Social Issues
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Richard Hu. Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective. Australian Journal of Social Issues 2020, 55, 201 -217.

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Richard Hu. Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective. Australian Journal of Social Issues. 2020; 55 (2):201-217.

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Richard Hu. 2020. "Australia’s national urban policy: The smart cities agenda in perspective." Australian Journal of Social Issues 55, no. 2: 201-217.

Journal article
Published: 17 November 2019 in Energies
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China is at the midpoint of its urbanisation—the largest scale in human history. The recent smart city movement is influencing the discourse and practice of China’s urbanisation, with numerous cities claiming to build smart cities and/or adopting some forms of smart city strategies and initiatives. A so-called ‘latecomer’s advantage’ is being exploited to advance their pursuit for a smart city status, not only to catch up with overseas counterparts, but to overtake them and become international leaders. This local-level enthusiasm strikes a chord with the central government’s strategy of building an ‘innovative nation’ to drive its economic transformation towards a knowledge economy. This converging central-local interest is creating a ‘smart city mania’ across the nation, which, however, has not received due attention in the international literature, and thus deserves critical examination and reflection to inform policy debates. To address this gap, this study investigates the state of smart cities in China, based on a case study of Shenzhen, China’s fastest-growing, experimental city. Shenzhen grew from a fishing village into an international metropolis in 40 years, and has now won a nickname of ‘China’s Silicon Valley’ or ‘China’s smartest city’. This study analyses the state of Chinese smart cities and the pursuit for a smart Shenzhen from the perspectives of the smart city as a concept, as an urban development paradigm, and as an urban regime, drawing upon the international smart city literature. It concludes that a technology-centric approach to smart cities in China, as illustrated by the Shenzhen case, have advanced innovation capacity and economic growth through capitalising on a ‘latecomer’s advantage’. However, this ‘latecomer’s advantage’ may translate into a ‘latecomer’s disadvantage’ for this approach’s lack of institutional adaptation, and for its insufficient attention to social and environmental problems covered under the shiny economic boom. This latecomer’s disadvantage is likely to impact the long-term sustainability of Chinese cities.

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Richard Hu. The State of Smart Cities in China: The Case of Shenzhen. Energies 2019, 12, 4375 .

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Richard Hu. The State of Smart Cities in China: The Case of Shenzhen. Energies. 2019; 12 (22):4375.

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Richard Hu. 2019. "The State of Smart Cities in China: The Case of Shenzhen." Energies 12, no. 22: 4375.

Book
Published: 08 October 2019 in Global Shanghai Remade
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Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to shed light on contemporary globalisation and China’s integration with the world since the late 20th century. Unpacking the rise of Pudong in the context of Deng Xiaoping’s nation-building agenda, this book explores the development of the district from its earliest planning into a global city centre through multiple perspectives. In doing so, it explores the role of key decision-makers and actors, the strategic planning process, the approaches to urban development, and some of the iconic projects that define the rise of Pudong, Shanghai, and China itself. A timely volume for the 30th anniversary of China’s strategy of ‘developing and opening Pudong,’ it combines the analyses and findings from these perspectives into a framework for a broader understanding of city-making with Chinese characteristics. The first study of its kind, providing a comprehensive and systematic examination of Pudong, this book will be useful for students and scholars of urban planning and design, as well as Chinese Studies and Development Studies more generally.

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Richard Hu; Weijie Chen. Global Shanghai Remade. Global Shanghai Remade 2019, 1 .

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Richard Hu, Weijie Chen. Global Shanghai Remade. Global Shanghai Remade. 2019; ():1.

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Richard Hu; Weijie Chen. 2019. "Global Shanghai Remade." Global Shanghai Remade , no. : 1.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter introduces the aim, contexts, approach, and organisation of the book. The central concern of the book is on crafting innovative places to grow a knowledge economy in Australia, drawing on global experiences. We call for rediscovering the role of places in incubating innovation as part of a global network of innovation systems. A focus on place-based innovation is situated within three contemporary forces—globalisation, urbanisation, and innovation—that are disrupting and restructuring the spatial patterns of the global economy. We argue that these forces are interacting to create a flat but uneven world, in which some places have higher concentrations of innovation capacity and knowledge economy activities and thus attract global talent and investment, while other places are losing opportunities and human capital. The global innovation race and the transition to a knowledge economy put places in Australian cities on the front line of policymaking, and places are a critical part of any national plan to win the global competition and develop a thriving knowledge economy.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Rediscovering Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 1 -22.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Rediscovering Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():1-22.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Rediscovering Places." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 1-22.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter maps a smart way forward for Australia to pursue innovation and thrive as a knowledge economy. The chapter outlines several smart opportunities derived from cutting-edge technologies that will be shaping the future economy and the future practice of work—smart work, artificial intelligence, and low-tech innovation. It then discusses the recent Turnbull government’s (2015–18) smart cities agenda from the perspectives of internal policy setting and the global competitive environment. The smart cities agenda captured the importance of innovation and the need for Australian cities and communities to transition to a knowledge economy. However, it has not provided a consistent national urban policy framework to guide the future development of Australian cities. To conclude the book, we propose a co-design and co-creation approach, involving collaboration and interaction between three tiers of government, to drive Australia forward as an innovation shaper rather than taker in the global innovation race.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. The Smart Way Forward. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 219 -255.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. The Smart Way Forward. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():219-255.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "The Smart Way Forward." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 219-255.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter examines the pursuit of innovation in Australian cities. It begins by outlining the imperatives for pursuing innovation in Australia, recognising the need for an Australian way that is not just an imitation of international best practices, and emphasising the essential role of governments. It particularly points out the importance of translating the Australian government’s innovation rhetoric into effective actions to reverse the downward trend in national innovation inputs and performance. The chapter then introduces several innovative places in Australia’s leading global cities, Sydney and Melbourne, and several recent ‘smart cities’ initiatives in Adelaide and Canberra. These places are important innovation hubs in Australian cities, but none have yet achieved a leading status globally. Finally, the chapter provides a comprehensive examination of the innovative assets of 25 Australian cities through constructing a Knowledge City Index, which reveals their competitive strengths and weaknesses in pursuing innovation.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Pursuing Innovation in Australian Cities. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 155 -190.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Pursuing Innovation in Australian Cities. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():155-190.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Pursuing Innovation in Australian Cities." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 155-190.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter draws upon the innovative practices we have examined, both overseas and at home, and synthesises and consolidates them into a ‘crafting’ approach to innovative place making. The chapter begins by presenting five crafting tools—milieu, catalyst, collaboration, place making, and financing—and examines each of these tools closely to reveal how it works. We then turn to regional Australia to explore innovation potential and new economic opportunities for regional urban centres and non-metropolitan areas. The chapter suggests six strategic opportunities for regional Australia in the new context of a global digital era, and offers four strategic elements that have proven useful in driving local economic development. On the basis of these crafting tools and strategic directions, a crafting paradigm is developed for innovative place making, underpinned by the triple pillars of vision, strategy, and support. This paradigm has wider application than simply the Australian context.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. The Art of Crafting. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 191 -218.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. The Art of Crafting. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():191-218.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "The Art of Crafting." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 191-218.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter examines Australian cities in an increasingly competitive world and how these cities perform compared to each other and globally. The conceptualisation of urban competitiveness is moving from an economic-centric approach to an integrative approach that incorporates economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. This new conceptualisation is changing the way urban competitiveness is measured. This chapter measures the competitiveness of Australian cities, especially its gateway global cities, Sydney and Melbourne, to reveal their competitive strengths and weaknesses in the global urban system. It also investigates intercity competition, within Australia’s national urban system, to demonstrate that attracting people and talent is associated with the cities’ knowledge economies and innovation capacity. These conceptual and empirical examinations draw attention to the role of innovation in a city’s competitiveness in a knowledge economy, which underpins the concluding argument for developing knowledge-based agglomerations in cities.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Australian Cities in Competition. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 51 -83.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Australian Cities in Competition. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():51-83.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Australian Cities in Competition." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 51-83.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter draws insights from the global innovative places examined in the previous chapter. It outlines four major approaches to innovative place making: the anchor approach, the hub approach, the community approach, and the stand-alone approach; and identifies five key attributes that define innovative places: cluster, anchor, brand, social good, and governance. An innovation ecosystem is conceptualised in the form of a triple helix system comprising collaboration, acceleration, and urbanism. These approaches, attributes, and the ecosystem constitute a holistic mechanism for the making and functioning of successful innovative places. The chapter draws several lessons for the Australian context, focusing on the importance of a leading anchor, good urban design and place making, the role of government, the need to attract human capital, and the significance of an open-minded and risk-taking culture. These lessons are drawn from global best practices and have been chosen as a focus with a view to Australia’s competitive strengths and weaknesses in the global innovation race.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Dissecting Innovative Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 121 -154.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Dissecting Innovative Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():121-154.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Dissecting Innovative Places." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 121-154.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter takes a global perspective on innovative places. It examines 13 different places in the United States, Asia, and Europe. These places are selected as case studies for their diversity in innovation specialties and geography; this diversity allows them to represent a wide spectrum of global innovative places. For each place, the chapter provides background information, explores historical evolutions, identifies driving factors, and seeks best practice planning and policymaking approaches. Each place has a unique setting and history, but they have all achieved international recognition for innovation after several decades of development. Their success in becoming innovative places is dependent on sets of external and internal factors. The chapter summarises these enabling factors for each place to identify converging and diverging patterns. These summaries are not intended as blueprints to be transferred to other settings, but rather they inform a deeper understanding of the factors and approaches that have proven effective in making innovative places.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Global Innovative Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 85 -119.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Global Innovative Places. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():85-119.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Global Innovative Places." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 85-119.

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Published: 08 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This chapter provides conceptual and historical backdrops focusing on Australia’s economy and its innovation landscape. It outlines the shifts in economic development goals, particularly in the context of cities, from seeking comparative advantage to competitive advantage and now collaborative advantage, and the new city development models that have emerged in the context of an innovation-led knowledge economy—the creative city, the knowledge city, and the smart city. The chapter then traces the history of Australia’s economy, built on human ingenuity and the luck of natural endowments, which has allowed Australia to sustain a high standard of living and resulted in a prosperous society. Australia has made significant contributions to human innovation in its short history. Transitioning from a resource economy to a knowledge economy poses the question of whether Australia should continue to export minerals or rather should export ideas. Although minerals still dominate Australia’s exports, education has become a leading export sector. We argue that Australia must maintain an innovation edge through human ingenuity, not natural resources, for the health of its future economy.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. The Lucky Country Still? Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 23 -50.

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. The Lucky Country Still? Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():23-50.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "The Lucky Country Still?" Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 23-50.

Book
Published: 01 January 2019 in Designing the Global City
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This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central Sydney through its policy commitment to ‘design excellence’ and more particularly to mandatory competitive design processes for major private development. Framed within broader contexts that link it to comparable urban policy and design issues in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, it provides a scholarly but accessible volume that provides a balanced and critical overview of a policy that has changed the design culture, development expectations, public realm and skyline of central Sydney, raising issues surrounding the uneven distribution of benefits and costs, professional practice, representative democracy, and implications of globalization.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. Designing the Global City. Designing the Global City 2019, 1 .

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Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu. Designing the Global City. Designing the Global City. 2019; ():1.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. 2019. "Designing the Global City." Designing the Global City , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2019 in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development
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The advancement of the digital technology and the rise of the knowledge economy have facilitated a growing practice of smart work - working anywhere and anytime. This study approaches smart work as a form of the sharing economy, with a central concern on its spatial disruption to inform planning implication, based on a case study of Canberra, Australia. The analysis combines spatial clustering of smart workers at small community level with the practice and perception of smart work. The results suggest an emerging spatial disruption of smart work on both land use and space use, which implies a need for some new planning thinking for urban-suburban relationship, infrastructure provision, localised economic development, and spatial reconfiguration for communities and spaces. This study also suggests a cautious and critical approach to sustainability aspirations, which have in part elevated the recent enthusiasm in smart work and the broader sharing economy.

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Richard Hu. Spatial disruption and planning implication of the sharing economy: a study of smart work in Canberra, Australia. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 2019, 10, 315 .

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Richard Hu. Spatial disruption and planning implication of the sharing economy: a study of smart work in Canberra, Australia. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. 2019; 10 (4):315.

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Richard Hu. 2019. "Spatial disruption and planning implication of the sharing economy: a study of smart work in Canberra, Australia." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 10, no. 4: 315.

Book
Published: 01 January 2019 in Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy
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This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape innovative capacity and competitiveness. It notably situates the innovative place making paradigm in a broader context of globalisation, urbanisation, the knowledge economy and technological advancement, and employs an international perspective that includes a wide range of case studies from America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Developing a co-design and co-creation paradigm that integrates governments, the private sector and the community into shared understanding and collaborative action in crafting innovative places, it discusses place-based innovation in Australian context to inform policy making and planning, and to contribute to policy debates on programs of smart cities and communities.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy 2019, 1 .

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Edward J. Blakely, Richard Hu. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy. 2019; ():1.

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Edward J. Blakely; Richard Hu. 2019. "Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy." Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2019 in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development
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This study investigates planning policy shifts to shape a global knowledge city in the dual contemporary transformative processes of globalisation and the knowledge economy. It develops an integrative conceptual and policy analytical framework from cross-fertilising 'the global city' and 'the knowledge city', and tests it by applying it to Melbourne as a case study. The empirical analysis involves a content analysis of strategic plans and elite interviews with key policy makers and informants. The findings are mixed. At both the state and the city levels, the strategic plans demonstrate a growing presence and importance of key themes that define Melbourne as an emerging global knowledge city. However, the absence of a national policy and problematic inter-governmental coordination in strategic directions, and a lack of focus on human capital without due considerations of home grown talent and international students, are limiting Melbourne from fully reaching its potential as a global knowledge city. Drawing on these findings, this study concludes with a discussion about the effectiveness of the constructed framework in conceptualising 'the global knowledge city' and policy analysis; it also points out a few limitations of this exploratory study that require further research.

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Sajeda Tuli; Richard Hu; Lain Dare. Planning a global knowledge city: experience from Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 2019, 10, 26 .

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Sajeda Tuli, Richard Hu, Lain Dare. Planning a global knowledge city: experience from Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development. 2019; 10 (1):26.

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Sajeda Tuli; Richard Hu; Lain Dare. 2019. "Planning a global knowledge city: experience from Melbourne, Australia." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 10, no. 1: 26.

Chapter
Published: 12 December 2018 in Designing the Global City
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This chapter provides a background on the drivers and aspirations for design excellence in Sydney in the last three decades of the twentieth century. It identifies three historical threads: a more enlightened climate encouraging quality design, a more progressive civic leadership recognising design values and the demonstration of traditional architectural and urban design competitions in delivering good design outcomes. Incrementally, these developments collectively paved the way for the City’s innovative design competition policy in 2000. Underpinning the emergence of design excellence as a central planning objective was a growing recognition of ‘design dividend’, which links private and public benefits to be gained from quality architectural and urban design.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. A Pre-history of Design Excellence in Sydney. Designing the Global City 2018, 81 -116.

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Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu. A Pre-history of Design Excellence in Sydney. Designing the Global City. 2018; ():81-116.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. 2018. "A Pre-history of Design Excellence in Sydney." Designing the Global City , no. : 81-116.

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Published: 12 December 2018 in Designing the Global City
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The first chapter introduces the aim, rationale, background and structure of the book, as well as the research approach. The first study of its type, this book provides a comprehensive and systematic examination of the pursuit of design excellence for large-scale property development in central Sydney through the mandating of design competitions. The experience of designing the Global City in Sydney is unique, since no other major city has ever adopted a similar policy requiring competitive design processes for private developments. The key to understanding the policy and its remaking of central Sydney is the interplay of several contemporary forces: globalisation, inter-city competition, competitive design, design excellence, competing interests and Sydney’s status as Australia’s global city.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. Introduction. Designing the Global City 2018, 1 -19.

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Robert Freestone; Gethin Davison; Richard Hu. 2018. "Introduction." Designing the Global City , no. : 1-19.