Simon Pinnegar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Pinnegar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinnegar |
| SIGNATURE | PINNEGAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2473-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The ‘rezoned property’ as a site of ontological security
Breaking the mould? How do policymakers learn from public housing estate renewal in a multi-actor environment
The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The renewal of public housing estates is often a critical flashpoint in this disconnect and provides a lens for analysing policy and action in the social and affordable housing subsystem. This article analyses and conceptualizes why disconnect between challenge …
Value switching
Land and property, and the wealth extracted from it, has reappeared as a central concern in understanding the process of urbanisation under capitalism. Much of the academic discussion centres on the re-emergence of ‘rentier capitalism’ drawing on 19th-century concepts of land economics. However, the accumulation of wealth through property ownership and the development process points towards a value proposition contained in the land question that …
“It’s Like Winning the Lottery But Without Buying a Lottery Ticket”
The delivery of compact city planning in Australia typically relies on the private sector, with upzoning mobilised by planning authorities to entice private development. This often involves land reconfiguration, requiring developers to consolidate multiple small land plots. In some precincts, land assembly is being initiated by residents coming together to sell; what we call collective sales. This paper explores how upzoning and collective sales …
Delivering suburban densification
Suburbs are at the forefront of urban change, with urban policy looking to increase the density of suburban centres. Thus, the compact city has emerged as a dominant urban policy paradigm, where policy settings are configured to enable densification in designated centres. For some, this is a form of post-suburbanism, characterised by new drivers, experiences and outcomes of suburban redevelopment pressures. However, suburban densification can eme…
What Should a National Urban Policy be for
What should a national urban policy be for, and do? Engage with spatial connectivity and relationships between city-regions, regional cities and towns, and “nation-building” infrastructure.Accommod
Understanding the lived experience and benefits of regional cities
This research investigates the lived experience of regional city residents (in five case studies) to understand how the benefits and disadvantages of regional city life are perceived and explore attitudes towards population growth.
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
This research analyses how evaluation of public housing renewal is informing policy development and delivery to maximise financial returns and socio-economic outcomes, and seeks to understand how key public policies, such as mixed-tenure development, can enable both social and economic returns
Decoupling Growth from Growth-dependent Planning Paradigms
With the population of Sydney expected to reach 7 million+ in the next 20 years, current strategic planning policy is firmly growth oriented in its aims, and growth dependent in its settings, with a key focus on promoting higher density redevelopment around rail stations through value uplift. Using the Sydenham-to-Bankstown Corridor as our case study, this paper engages with the contradictions underpinning current templates for market-driven urba…
Vertical Sprawl in the Australian City
This paper examines the spatial implications of Sydney’s vertical expansion over the past decade. Enabled by a partnership between market forces and strategic planning policy, the data indicate that the city’s high-density development boom has been primarily shaped by economic viability concerns, driving a spatial policy shift to better align better with market forces. The paper concludes that in the absence of more comprehensive housing and urba…
It depends what you mean by the term rights’
Strata title was introduced in Australia over 50 years ago and offered a legal mechanism for space to be vertically subdivided and traded. Importantly, it allowed individualised property rights to be applied to multi-unit housing. In New South Wales, recent changes to the Strata Scheme Development Act allow termination of strata schemes with less than unanimous support of owners. A central feature of the discussion surrounding the implementation …
Supersized Australian Dream
Increasingly popular “supersized” dwellings, often twice as big as the traditional detached suburban house, have been widely criticized on social, environmental, economic and aesthetic grounds. This paper examines the emergence of infill-supersized dwellings in the older post-war suburbs of Sydney, Australia, through piecemeal replacement of older houses in a process known as knockdown-rebuild. The paper explores the reasons which encourage owner…
The Question of Scale in Housing-Led Regeneration
Despite recognition of the fluid, interconnected nature of urban drivers and outcomes operating across a variety of spatial scales, the use of area-based initiatives in urban regeneration and renewal policy continues to fix space in order to identify scope, determine legitimacy, and clarify accountability. Even if multiple scales are acknowledged in policy discourse and strategy, actual boundaries defining a policy's geography of interest have ty…
Supersized Australian Dream
Increasingly popular “supersized” dwellings, often twice as big as the traditional detached suburban house, have been widely criticized on social, environmental, economic and aesthetic grounds. This paper examines the emergence of infill-supersized dwellings in the older post-war suburbs of Sydney, Australia, through piecemeal replacement of older houses in a process known as knockdown-rebuild. The paper explores the reasons which encourage owner…
It depends what you mean by the term rights’
Strata title was introduced in Australia over 50 years ago and offered a legal mechanism for space to be vertically subdivided and traded. Importantly, it allowed individualised property rights to be applied to multi-unit housing. In New South Wales, recent changes to the Strata Scheme Development Act allow termination of strata schemes with less than unanimous support of owners. A central feature of the discussion surrounding the implementation …
Delivering suburban densification
Suburbs are at the forefront of urban change, with urban policy looking to increase the density of suburban centres. Thus, the compact city has emerged as a dominant urban policy paradigm, where policy settings are configured to enable densification in designated centres. For some, this is a form of post-suburbanism, characterised by new drivers, experiences and outcomes of suburban redevelopment pressures. However, suburban densification can eme…
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
This research analyses how evaluation of public housing renewal is informing policy development and delivery to maximise financial returns and socio-economic outcomes, and seeks to understand how key public policies, such as mixed-tenure development, can enable both social and economic returns
The Question of Scale in Housing-Led Regeneration
Despite recognition of the fluid, interconnected nature of urban drivers and outcomes operating across a variety of spatial scales, the use of area-based initiatives in urban regeneration and renewal policy continues to fix space in order to identify scope, determine legitimacy, and clarify accountability. Even if multiple scales are acknowledged in policy discourse and strategy, actual boundaries defining a policy's geography of interest have ty…
The Question of Scale in Housing-Led Regeneration
Despite recognition of the fluid, interconnected nature of urban drivers and outcomes operating across a variety of spatial scales, the use of area-based initiatives in urban regeneration and renewal policy continues to fix space in order to identify scope, determine legitimacy, and clarify accountability. Even if multiple scales are acknowledged in policy discourse and strategy, actual boundaries defining a policy's geography of interest have ty…
Supersized Australian Dream
Increasingly popular “supersized” dwellings, often twice as big as the traditional detached suburban house, have been widely criticized on social, environmental, economic and aesthetic grounds. This paper examines the emergence of infill-supersized dwellings in the older post-war suburbs of Sydney, Australia, through piecemeal replacement of older houses in a process known as knockdown-rebuild. The paper explores the reasons which encourage owner…
It depends what you mean by the term rights’
Strata title was introduced in Australia over 50 years ago and offered a legal mechanism for space to be vertically subdivided and traded. Importantly, it allowed individualised property rights to be applied to multi-unit housing. In New South Wales, recent changes to the Strata Scheme Development Act allow termination of strata schemes with less than unanimous support of owners. A central feature of the discussion surrounding the implementation …
Decoupling Growth from Growth-dependent Planning Paradigms
With the population of Sydney expected to reach 7 million+ in the next 20 years, current strategic planning policy is firmly growth oriented in its aims, and growth dependent in its settings, with a key focus on promoting higher density redevelopment around rail stations through value uplift. Using the Sydenham-to-Bankstown Corridor as our case study, this paper engages with the contradictions underpinning current templates for market-driven urba…
Vertical Sprawl in the Australian City
This paper examines the spatial implications of Sydney’s vertical expansion over the past decade. Enabled by a partnership between market forces and strategic planning policy, the data indicate that the city’s high-density development boom has been primarily shaped by economic viability concerns, driving a spatial policy shift to better align better with market forces. The paper concludes that in the absence of more comprehensive housing and urba…
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
This research analyses how evaluation of public housing renewal is informing policy development and delivery to maximise financial returns and socio-economic outcomes, and seeks to understand how key public policies, such as mixed-tenure development, can enable both social and economic returns
Understanding the lived experience and benefits of regional cities
This research investigates the lived experience of regional city residents (in five case studies) to understand how the benefits and disadvantages of regional city life are perceived and explore attitudes towards population growth.
What Should a National Urban Policy be for
What should a national urban policy be for, and do? Engage with spatial connectivity and relationships between city-regions, regional cities and towns, and “nation-building” infrastructure.Accommod
Value switching
Land and property, and the wealth extracted from it, has reappeared as a central concern in understanding the process of urbanisation under capitalism. Much of the academic discussion centres on the re-emergence of ‘rentier capitalism’ drawing on 19th-century concepts of land economics. However, the accumulation of wealth through property ownership and the development process points towards a value proposition contained in the land question that …
“It’s Like Winning the Lottery But Without Buying a Lottery Ticket”
The delivery of compact city planning in Australia typically relies on the private sector, with upzoning mobilised by planning authorities to entice private development. This often involves land reconfiguration, requiring developers to consolidate multiple small land plots. In some precincts, land assembly is being initiated by residents coming together to sell; what we call collective sales. This paper explores how upzoning and collective sales …
Delivering suburban densification
Suburbs are at the forefront of urban change, with urban policy looking to increase the density of suburban centres. Thus, the compact city has emerged as a dominant urban policy paradigm, where policy settings are configured to enable densification in designated centres. For some, this is a form of post-suburbanism, characterised by new drivers, experiences and outcomes of suburban redevelopment pressures. However, suburban densification can eme…
The ‘rezoned property’ as a site of ontological security
Breaking the mould? How do policymakers learn from public housing estate renewal in a multi-actor environment
The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The renewal of public housing estates is often a critical flashpoint in this disconnect and provides a lens for analysing policy and action in the social and affordable housing subsystem. This article analyses and conceptualizes why disconnect between challenge …
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Housing Market and Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Civil engineering (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works)