Big Projects in a Time of Uncertainty: Facing the Future in a Contemporary Urban Development

In 1968 the New South Wales planning agency marked out an oval zone-the North West Sector-on the metropolitan plan for Sydney, Australia. This zone was to be investigated for future development as a growth corridor. By 1994, after the Sector had been recreated as the Rouse Hill Development Area with a planned population of 250,000, the first lots were produced (DoP 1995, 82).