Planning should be about creating communities, not just buildings

Planning should be about creating communities, not just buildings
Good urban and regional planning depends on it being a system – a series of connected and inter-related components that together achieve things. Each component such as transport, jobs, housing, natural places, and recreation are complementary and in concert produce shared benefits now and into the future.

Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/p...t-buildings-20111130-1o6nv.html#ixzz1fKqMI3PD
Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/p...t-buildings-20111130-1o6nv.html#ixzz1fKq9PPkr

 

Thanks, Michael

The above article was in my pile of reading matter this morning. Alan March is a very well respected scholar on the subject, and he is right on the money (pardon the pun) with this one:

Victorian planning has the greatest potential for citizen participation and input in Australia, and possibly the world. People can get involved at many stages of planning processes and they often do. Some make it a kind of second life and it has been the foundation (and end) of many local government political careers. Unfortunately, the involvement most people have in planning in Victoria is quite negative: "No, we don't want that." Importantly, in the current planning system this is necessary. If objections and appeals were not available many more poorly designed, ill-located, excessively big, and insensitive developments would be built in our cities, particularly in the inner and middle ring suburbs.

Nearly enough to make me weep tears of frustration as I munched on my morning toast with Vegemite...

Also in my 'inbox' this morning:

Hendrie, D. (2011) The triumph of the NIMBY in urban planning

...and this one from (the US, just to show were are thinking of Pacific ocean neighbours) yesterday:

Temple, J. (2011) Urban Planning, Architecture Books Atop Hawaii Governor's Desk

...and, just to show that I'm not biased in my reading, here's one from the 'other side':

Elliot, R. (2011) Waging a green jihad on suburban homes

Of course, all of the above articles are based on 'opinion' (some more informed than others, I might add), so a pinch of caution should always be taken in reading them.

Cheerio, Markos

 

I would put that in the too-hard basket for a lot of people at most levels of government I'm familiar with. Status quo.

It's completely true and relevant. Take water management for something I'm interested in at the moment. Bog ponds, reed beds, all sequestering and filtering water in the landscape vs the current system of clean, straight paths to the nearest creek (at the expense of habitat) and at maximum speed. It's not right, but that's how the status quo expect it.

 

You too? Where I live, there are awesome photos from the 1890's of people swimming at the boat launch where people go for salmon fishing. Both Myrtle Point (upstream) and Coquille (upstream from me) dumps effluence directly into the Coquille River in periods of flooding in spring. Doesn't matter that this effects the salmon, crab, sturgeon, Stripers, otters, and other animals, and me, I would just like a clean river to go swimming in.

 

I Thought it might interest you Markos