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The first large-scale attempt to create mixed-use development in Australia was the [[Sydney Region Outline Plan]], a plan that identified Sydney's need to decentralise and organise its growth around the metropolitan area. Its main objective was to control the city's rapid post-war population growth by introducing growth corridors and economic centres that would help prevent uncontrolled sprawl and the overuse of the car as a means of transport <ref name="srop">{{cite book | title= Sydney region outline plan 1970–2000 A.D.: a strategy for development | author=State Planning Authority | publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]] | ___location=Sydney | year=1968 | access-date=20 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gentin |first=Michael |title=ALL MIXED UP: A Critical Analysis of Mixed Use |url=https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/upload/pdf/schools_and_engagement/resources/_notes/5A3_28.pdf |archive-format= |access-date=20 June 2024 |website=unsw.edu.au |page=29 |format=PDF}}</ref> Several city centres such as [[Parramatta]] or [[Campbelltown, New South Wales| Campbelltown]] benefited from these policies, creating economic hubs with his own inner-city amenities along Sydney's main thoroughfares.<ref name="srop"> </ref>

Subsequent plans complemented the initial one with new policies focused on economic and urban renewal issues. In particular, the 1988 Plan was designed in collaboration with a transport strategy and was the first to recommend higher development densities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Metropolis of Three Cities |url=https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-04/greater-sydney-region-plan.pdf |website=planning.nsw.gov.au |publisher=Greater Sydney Commision |page=28}}</ref> Since then, Australian planning authorities have given greater priority to mixed-use development of inner-city industrial land as a way of revitalising areas neglected by the decline in manufacturing, consolidating and densifying the previously underpopulated urban centres. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Grodach |first=Carl |last2=Gibson |first2=Chris |last3=O'Connor |first3=Justin |date=2019-08-25 |title=Three ways to fix the problems caused by rezoning inner-city industrial land for mixed-use apartments |url=http://theconversation.com/three-ways-to-fix-the-problems-caused-by-rezoning-inner-city-industrial-land-for-mixed-use-apartments-121566 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite andweb |last=Baker |first=Emma |last2=Lange |first2=Jarrod |last3=Coffee |first3=Neil |date=28 September 2016 |title=Density, sprawl, growth: how Australian cities have changed in the last 30 years |url=http://theconversation.com/density-sprawl-growth-how-australian-cities-have-changed-in-the-last-30-years-65870 |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}</ref>

This new urban planning approach has had a significant impact on the use of land parcels in major Australian cities: according to 2021 data from [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]], mixed zoning already suppose more than 9% of new housing approvals in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2022 |title=Land and Housing Supply Indicators, 2022 |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/land-and-housing-supply-indicators/latest-release |access-date=19 June 2024 |website=www.abs.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>

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