ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the way in which different views about the preferred future built environment in a particular location emerge from three planning windows. It utilizes the example of the regeneration of Darling Harbour, inner Sydney, to illustrate the way in which this framework can be applied to explain the emergence of different planning windows. The chapter applies these frames to interpret the activation of planning windows in two phases of Darling Harbour's regeneration. The opportunity to regenerate Pyrmont peninsula came, like that of Barangaroo on the other side of Darling Harbour, with the shift of port functions to Botany Bay in southern Sydney from the 1970s. Planning for regeneration started in 1988 with the preparation of a Central Sydney Strategy by the state government and Sydney City Council, which identified the peninsula as having development potential. The chapter also considers the opportunities for views to emerge and for planning windows to be activated.
