ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to extend the Australian research examining resistance to urban regeneration, to which there have been many important contributions made over the past two decades, by bringing into dialogue the role that transport-led urban regeneration has played in igniting recent experiences of citizen opposition and resistance. It shows how the renewal of public-transport infrastructure attracts local community resistance. The chapter focuses on one project, Melbourne’s number 96 Tram accessibility upgrades and the resistance mounted to it at the project proposal stage. In this case the transport-led regeneration project was part of a larger urban agenda to invest in urban transport to address broader mobility challenges faced across metropolitan Melbourne. It seeks to depart the important critical scholarship that exposes the injustices of capitalist production driving urban reproduction, by emphasising the unique complexities involved in transport-led urban regeneration. The chapter highlights the spatial and scale-based nature of resistance to transport-led urban regeneration.
