Laurence Troy
Email: laurence.troy@sydney.edu.au
Institution/Organisation: School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
Position: Senior Lecturer
Biographical Information: Laurence Troy is a Senior Lecturer in Urbanism in the School of Architecture Design and Planning. His research focuses on urban renewal, the governance or urban change, the economies of housing and urban development, and the role of urbanisation in shaping modern society. Laurence’s recent work focusses on: The political economy of the higher density multi-unit residential development sector in Australia’s largest city and their relationship to the land use planning system that facilitates this process via value uplift; Funding models for social affordable housing and cost implications of different policy options for new housing delivery; Understanding housing outcomes of deregulated and incremental approaches to affordable housing delivery in Sydney; and Implications of labour market changes and housing outcomes on the shape of modern Australian society.
Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Laurence was a research fellow and lecturer in at City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, where he worked on a range of housing, urban renewal, and urban governance research. He was lead author on a project title ‘Renewing the Compact City’ which focused on urban renewal challenges of apartments under fragmented private ownership. This work was award both the NSW (2016) and National (2017) Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Award for Planning Excellence in Research and Teaching. While at UNSW, Laurence also developed CityViz, an online data visualisation platform the aims to provide a space to combine quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in an open and accessible format.
Title: Planning for Lower‐Income Households in Privately Developed High‐Density Neighbourhoods in Sydney, Australia
Published: Easthope, H., Crommelin, L., Kerr, S.M., Troy, L., van den Nouwelant, R. and Davison, G., 2022. Planning for Lower-Income Households in Privately Developed High-Density Neighbourhoods in Sydney, Australia. Urban Planning, 7(4), pp.213-228.
Author/Co-authors: Hazel Easthope, Laura Crommelin, Sophie-May Kerr, Laurence Troy, Ryan van den Nouwelant, Gethin Davison
Keywords: Liveability, Planning, Policy, Qualitative research/interviews,
Summary:
In Australia, private high‐density housing is typically marketed as the domain of middle‐ and higher‐income residents. In practice, it accommodates many lower‐income households. This has implications for public infrastructure planning in high‐density neighbourhoods where private property ownership dominates. Examining two case-studies with markedly different day-to-day experiences, this article argues that coordinated and collaborative planning processes are key to ensuring that the needs of lower‐income households are met in privately developed apartment neighbourhoods.