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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- 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 Research, thoughts and writing on communities in their place. from : petebradwell 28th June 2006
- Mapping Strategy Strategic thinking from : petebradwell 28th June 2006
- And in the seventh month... ...there was nuclear power. Or, at least, talk about nuclear power.The government's energy report has, to nobody's surprise, signalled that rebuilding Britain's nuclear power capacity will be necessary to keep our TVs burning and our Macbooks charged. And the Prime Minister confirmed what we all feared - that 'wishful thinking won't keep the lights on'. And there was me crossing my fingers...But aside from the rights and wrongs (wrongs, wrongs) of investing in nuclear energy, there are the... from : petebradwell 12th July 2006
- Guardian Unlimited Business | | 'A dirty and dangerous path' Quotes about the government's energy review. from : petebradwell 13th July 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
- WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: World Environment Day -- Good post on environmental planning from : petebradwell 21st July 2006
