ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the potential use of the Culturised System in relation to Sydney, capital of the State of NSW, Australia. The Sydney Region is chosen as a symbolic planning example, although the Culturised System may be applied to any area, regardless of its location, or the geographical or planning scale involved. The principles of plenitude, connectivity, diversity, reflexivity, creativity, critical thinking, and sustainability vary in their individual levels of importance for each place. The relationship between the diversity of planning scales, levels, and forms, is an important component of strategic literacy, as are the nature and differential utility of planning techniques. Pyrmont-Ultimo, in its new and gentrified format, is developing a culture related to the media and information technology industries now located there and the sector that services the Sydney casino. The interpretation of Pyrmont-Ultimo would need to tell the story of planning's failure to realise the special opportunities embodied in communities, history and place.
