Future Planners
Re-thinking the cultural, environmental and democratic role of planners and planning
The planning system has been reborn – what roles will planners be playing, and what tools will they need, to maximise the democratic potential of the planning system?
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- WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: World Environment Day -- Good post on environmental planning from : petebradwell 21st July 2006
- Workshop and Narrative We've been developing our Future Planners story for a while now - a process that really began with the writing of the 'Production Values' chapter. And the most recent session was last week's workshop here at Demos (pictures in the Flickr feed on the right). Thanks to everyone that came and withstood the intense heat and brought real skill, experience and insight to a compelling day's work.With that workshop and through our initial thoughts from the interviews and case-studies, we have produced... from : petebradwell 24th July 2006
- Neighbourhoods: Transience and information about neighbourhoods Post on transient populations and neighbourhoods from : petebradwell 31st July 2006
- DCLG / Gosplan Comparison Shock The re-emergence of Russian centralised planning caught my attention over the weekend. It doesn't, according to Deputy PM Vladimir Yakovlev, amount to a return to amusingly scientific output specifications for nails and screwdrivers, but rather a means to integrate cross-regional planning needs. Or, as Alexander Khloponin, Govenor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, suggested - 'We must adjust aims and tasks, and not supplies of nails and products...' from : petebradwell 31st July 2006
- Where the rubber hits the grid-road We spent Wednesday and Thursday this week in Milton Keynes talking to planners and council members - the first of our case study visits. I had some initial thoughts I thought might be worth putting up.For the debutant visitor the grid-planned streets and wide, tree-lined pedestrian walkways lend ‘MK’ an LA-tinged other-worldliness. It was planned into existence, so inevitably it's fairly unique.Milton Keynes is indeed a special case from a planning perspective. But the challenges... from : petebradwell 23rd June 2006
- BLDG BLOG Architectural conjecture; urban speculation; landscape futures. from : petebradwell 28th June 2006
- Neighbourhoods: Formal and informal in public space "Like a lot of people I dislike barriers and traffic lights both as a pedestrian and as a driver, because they seem like a mutually-inconvenient and extreme solution to different forms of movement because we cannot find a functional compromise. One reason motorist and pedestrian often haven't found a compromise is because official systems need to be able to apportion blame if things go wrong and therefore need to rule out ambiguity." from : petebradwell 14th July 2006
- Welcome to Planning Summer School A lot of interesting and insightful papers on all manner of planning issues. from : petebradwell 14th July 2006
- The Observer | Business | Empires bid to strike back in stores war Big versus little retail in the the planning system. from : petebradwell 17th July 2006
