This article applies ideas about critical urban assemblages to understand the planning processes, politics, and delivery of waterfront regeneration from an Australian perspective, drawing on the Port Adelaide waterfront in South Australia as a case study. Waterfront regeneration is associated with global economic deregulation, market-led development, changes to planning regulatory requirements, and “streamlined” governance arrangements. The global spread of waterfront regeneration is an outcome of such processes, with individual waterfronts being “remade” and reimagined to reflect priorities emphasised by those forging urban policies linked to inter-urban competitiveness and neoliberal urbanism. Waterfront developments may be categorised as “models” of success or failure that limit deeper analysis that can advance theory and practice. How such projects reflect interactions across local and global scales rather than just being expressions of global forces is a question often ignored; so, too, are those considering how policy and politics mediate those relationships. Ideas, strategies, capital, people, policy, and politics are dynamic, provisional, and contested, and are produced and assembled in particular ways to suit specific spatiotemporal contexts. On that understanding, the aim of this article is to highlight how the Port Adelaide waterfront is undergoing assembly and reassembly to reflect socioeconomic priorities and metropolitan planning agendas.

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澳大利亚的滨水区再生：当地对重新构想废弃城市码头区的全球趋势的反应

本文以南澳大利亚的阿德莱德港滨水区为例，运用有关关键城市组合的思想，从澳大利亚的角度理解滨水区再生的规划过程、政治和交付。滨水区再生与全球经济放松管制、市场主导的发展、规划监管要求的变化以及“精简”的治理安排有关。滨水区再生的全球传播是此类过程的结果，个别滨水区被“改造”和重新构想，以反映那些制定与城市间竞争力和新自由主义城市主义相关的城市政策的人所强调的优先事项。滨水区开发可能被归类为成功或失败的“模型”，它们限制了可以推进理论和实践的深入分析。这些项目如何反映本地和全球范围内的互动，而不仅仅是全球力量的表达，这是一个经常被忽视的问题；那些考虑政策和政治如何调解这些关系的人也是如此。思想、战略、资本、人员、政策和政治是动态的、临时的和有争议的，并且以适应特定时空背景的特定方式产生和组合。基于这种理解，本文的目的是强调阿德莱德港海滨如何进行组装和重组，以反映社会经济优先事项和大都市规划议程。战略、资本、人员、政策和政治是动态的、临时的和有争议的，并且以适应特定时空背景的特定方式产生和组合。基于这种理解，本文的目的是强调阿德莱德港海滨如何进行组装和重组，以反映社会经济优先事项和大都市规划议程。战略、资本、人员、政策和政治是动态的、临时的和有争议的，并且以适应特定时空背景的特定方式产生和组合。基于这种理解，本文的目的是强调阿德莱德港海滨如何进行组装和重组，以反映社会经济优先事项和大都市规划议程。