b"MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSGateway | Node in the Network | Mish-mashHow to Create and Capture Public Value: Current Debates in North SydneyMessage from Academics and Scholars:Jeremy DawkinsThe decision by the NSW Government toNevertheless, the North Sydney city centre grew construct a Metro line from Rouse Hill in thein the final decades of the last century to be north west of the Sydney region to Bankstown inthe fifth largest CBD in Australia after Sydney, the south west has raised many critical issuesMelbourne, Brisbane and Perth. While it has not for regional planning, urban design and thekept pace with other cities, it is now catching up. funding of infrastructure. This is the middle of a decade that will see well over 200,000 m2 of high-quality office space Canterbury, on the Bankstown line, has beenadded to the city centre. Within a few years, the focus of vigorous debates about dramaticNorth Sydney, Parramatta and Macquarie Park-increases in urban density and the validityNorth Ryde will each have well over one million of funding the Metro through a form of valuesquare metres of office floor space (by then the capturea question explored in one of theSydney CBD will have between six and seven studio projects presented in this Yearbook. million square metres of office floor space).At another critical node on the network, theIt is widely agreed that these city centres are North Sydney city centre has become agrowing at the expense of suburban business 17 laboratory for urban development and design, asparks, office campuses and other distributed battles are fought over the value and impacts oflocations, because organisations are competing development. for knowledge workers who prefer to work where Jeremy Dawkins the action is (or at least where the coffee shops This is happening, in part, because the Northand bars are) in a lively urban centre with good Sydney city centre is a pretty appalling CBD.public transport. One could say that for these It hasn't had anything remotely like the levelworkers, concentration (even congestion)of of planning and care and attention over thetall buildings, people and activityis a positive decades that it should have had (Jeremyexternality. This externality has a real monetary Bingham in Park 2001, p.15). value, even if it is hard to quantify. Employers have to increase salaries or add other benefits MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban NetworksINTRO 8pt.indd 18 26/11/2019 4:11:26 PM"