ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of what constitutes urban regeneration is presented as a precursor to an outline sketch of the evolution of urban regeneration policy within Australia and the UK. It highlights the emergence of the Building Better Cities Program and the adoption of a place-based, property-development approach to urban regeneration in Perth that gave birth to a new governance structure – that is a redevelopment authority – that had both planning and development powers. The chapter shows that the redevelopment authority model proved to be a bi-partisan political and policy success and is reflected in the proliferation of redevelopment authorities set up during the 1990s/2000s. It also highlights the next phase that is consolidation and streamlining in the evolution of urban regeneration governance in Perth as part of the state government’s wider planning reform agenda. A. Tallon notes that urban regeneration is a subset of urban policy.
