ABSTRACT Peri-urban areas are the interface between urban and rural regions, with these regions traditionally acting as foodbowls for adjacent urban areas. This peri-urban agriculture provides a diverse suite of benefits to urban areas. Increasingly, however, peri-urban areas are being converted to residential uses, driven in part by higher land values secured for land converted for residential development. In Sydney, planning and development has tended to treat peri-urban areas as ‘suburbs in waiting’. Using a Foucauldian governmentality approach, this paper investigates the prevailing rationalities in metropolitan-level strategic planning documents—in particular A Plan for Growing Sydney and the Draft South West District Plan—and how these rationalities relate to peri-urban agriculture. Our analysis shows that the three overarching rationalities—the global city, the compact city and the sustainability agenda—frame the urbanisation of peri-urban agricultural lands as necessary and inevitable, and only integrate agriculture as part of the future of the city of Sydney when it can be rationalised within the ‘global city’ narrative. As a result, peri-urban areas are not considered to have unique planning needs, but are imagined as latent spaces that will enable Sydney to meet its housing and job targets through their future development.

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“地处不利”：规划政府和城郊农业未来

摘要 城郊地区是城市和农村地区之间的界面，这些地区传统上是邻近城市地区的食堂。这种城郊农业为城市地区提供了多种好处。然而，越来越多的城市周边地区正在转变为住宅用途，部分原因是为住宅开发转变的土地获得了更高的土地价值。在悉尼，规划和开发往往将城郊地区视为“等待中的郊区”。本文采用福柯式治理方法，研究了大都市层面战略规划文件中的普遍合理性——尤其是悉尼发展计划和西南地区规划草案——以及这些合理性与城郊农业的关系。我们的分析表明，全球城市、紧凑型城市和可持续发展议程这三个总体合理性将城郊农业用地的城市化视为必要和不可避免的，并且只有在以下情况下才能将农业整合为悉尼市未来的一部分它可以在“全球城市”的叙述中合理化。因此，郊区不被认为具有独特的规划需求，而是被视为潜在空间，使悉尼能够通过未来的发展实现其住房和就业目标。