Citizenship and housing : the provision of housing and practices of citizenship within global cities

![CDATA[Drawing on literature from citizenship studies, this review article examines how notions of citizenship might be deployed to better understand changing urban policies in nascent global cities. With the move toward conceptualising cities as nodal points within the global economy, an examination of citizenship as one of the suite of factors influencing housing processes offers insight into what is at stake in policy debates surrounding global urban form. Reflecting on Australian cities we argue that theories of citizenship are emerging within housing studies as key analytical instruments. Australia has a consolidated urban identity and metropolitan policy discourses are actively seeking a place for Australian cities alongside the global cities of the world. Yet, within much contemporary thinking about metropolitan planning the citizen is absent. This paper seeks to locate the citizen in contemporary housing processes to draw attention to Australia’s global, traditional territorial and shadowy citizenries. Using Australia’s metropolitan planning processes we sift for rights and responsibilities as they are implicated in the structures of the global economy, the ‘functionality’ of polycentric nodes of production, the organisation of urban space for consumption and the shifting of bureaucratic power between local, state and federal governments.]]