Is there a relationship between planning culture and the value of planning gain? Evidence from England

Resumen El ordenamiento territorial como disciplina ha venido aplicándose alrededor del mundo desde hace ya mucho tiempo; evidentemente sus procesos se han optimizado, y han evolucionado no solo técnica sino conceptualmente. Sin embargo, la velocidad a la que crecen actualmente las ciudades genera una brecha cada vez mayor con los procesos de planificación, que difícilmente pueden producir políticas o acciones urbanísticas que lleguen a tiempo a los territorios.La aparición en escena de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica ha ofrecido una nueva variedad de métodos y herramientas que en concordancia con los acelerados procesos de desarrollo urbano, han fortalecido la cultura de la planeación en la reducción de sus tiempos de análisis, la adquisición de datos y fundamentalmente en la toma de decisiones. En ese sentido, este artículo plantea la aplicabilidad de los SIG en el Ordenamiento Territorial, con base en la profunda relación existente entre los componentes básicos del primero y las metodologías de trabajo del segundo, y mediante ejemplos de algunas de las aplicaciones prácticas que se le pueden dar a esta nueva tecnología en el ámbito del urbanismo. Palabras ClavePlanificación urbana, Urbanismo, Relaciones Espaciales, Territorio. Abstract Urban planning as a discipline has been used around the world since long time ago; obviously it´s processes have improved and it has evolved not only technically but conceptually. However, the accelerated growth process of the cities is producing an every time bigger breach with the planning processes, that hardly produce on time policies or urban actions to apply on the territories. The appearance of the Geographic Information Systems has offered a new variety of methods and tools that according with the strong urban growth, has helped to improve the planning culture reducing the duration of its analyzing processes, the data acquisition, and mainly the decision making. In that order, this paper set up some of the application methods of GIS in Urban Planning, based on the deep relation that exist between the basic components of the first and the work methodologies of the second one, and using examples about some of the practical uses that may have this new technology at the urbanism field.KeywordsUrban Planning, Urbanism, Spatial Relations, Territory.

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CHALLENGES OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE (POST-SOCIALIST) TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY: EXPERIENCES FROM WATERFRONT URBAN AREAS MEZAPARK IN RIGA AND KALARAND IN TALLINN

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism ◽

10.3846/jau.2020.12223 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 109-121

Author(s):

Viktorija Prilenska ◽

Katrin Paadam ◽

Roode Liias

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Local Planning ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Current Case ◽

Engagement Strategies ◽

Public Expectations ◽

Key Stakeholders ◽

Planning Culture ◽

The City

Current case studies examine the shortcomings of civic engagement strategies during the design process and ratification of detailed plans for urban areas of strategic importance − Mezapark in Riga and Kalarand in Tallinn. Detailed plans caused public outcries and led to long-lasting and distressful negotiations between local communities, developers, designers and municipalities over the future development and use of these areas. The debates about detailed plans raised an increasing public interest in planning related issues and growing demands for greater civic engagement in decisions shaping the city. At the same time, the debates demonstrated the inability of local planning frameworks to meet public expectations. There appears a salient need for changing the planning culture. This paper studies the shortcomings of civic engagement strategies and the desirable changes through a series of semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders involved and the analysis of planning related documentation.

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Considering the role of negotiated developer contributions in financing ecological mitigation and protection programs in England: A cultural perspective

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1177/02690942211053592 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026909422110535

Author(s):

Malachy Buck

Keyword(s):

Practice Change ◽

Cultural Perspective ◽

Local Planning ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Value Capture ◽

Biodiversity Crisis ◽

Resource Limitations ◽

The Status ◽

Legislative Changes ◽

Planning Culture

This paper explores the potential of ‘Land Value Capture’ in addressing the shortfall in funding to address the biodiversity crisis through a series of interviews with Local Planning Authority officers in England. It finds heterogeneity in their responses to financial austerity and imperatives to deliver development, which heavily influences developer contribution (DC) practice. The response to these pressures differed depending upon localised planning culture and its interrelation with behavioural biases, which defined the scope of officer agency to influence developer contribution outcomes. Most LPAs placed a strong emphasis upon securing real estate investment to drive economic growth and to provide opportunities to secure DC to address socio-economic issues, with the status quo bias contributing towards inertia in policy and practice change. Elsewhere, there was a greater emphasis placed upon reconciling the need to deliver development with the preservation of environmental amenity, enabling officers to carefully frame practice changes, to successfully secure funding for ecological mitigation programs. The paper illustrates the cultural and behavioural challenges in implementing DC policy change to support funding these priorities, whilst this may be overcome by legislative changes, integrating these may be compromised by resource limitations whilst also affecting the existing delivery of public goods.

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Smart Planning

E-Planning and Collaboration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch029 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 601-632

Author(s):

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Web 2.0 ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

New Technologies ◽

Collective Intelligence ◽

Web 2.0 Tools ◽

Application Field ◽

Planning Culture ◽

Technology Trend ◽

Characteristic Process

This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of planning issues. Such an application field can be called Collective Intelligence 2.0 with crowdsourcing as its characteristic process. This chapter discusses how such an intelligence and crowd-sourced knowledge can be utilized in smartening up urban planning. Crowdsourcing has been experimented in urban planning since the late 2000s, most notably in the forms of wikiplanning, participatory sensing, and co-creation. By combining theoretical insights and empirical evidence, this chapter concludes that Web 2.0 tools can be used to increase various forms of social and collective intelligence and, especially when the precondition of citizen-centered open planning culture is met, have undeniable potential to smarten up urban planning.

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Enterprise Transformation

Computing Possible Futures ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198846420.003.0009 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 151-168

Author(s):

William B. Rouse

Keyword(s):

Fundamental Change ◽

Market Conditions ◽

Model Based ◽

Leadership Strategy ◽

Enterprise Transformation ◽

Strategy Planning ◽

Planning Culture ◽

Time Required

This chapter focuses on the topic of enterprise transformation. Successful adoption of the model-based approaches presented in this book can be helped or hindered by the nature of the enterprise using them. It is very difficult to successfully innovate when new offerings obsolete the current offerings. Enterprise transformation is driven by experienced and/or anticipated value deficiencies. The ends, means, and scope of transformation influence the difficulties, costs, and time required for fundamental change. Overall strategy choices include predicting better, learning faster, and acting faster; returns on investments in these areas depend on market conditions. Successful transformation initiatives usually require competencies in vision, leadership, strategy, planning, culture, collaboration, and teamwork.

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Planning Gain

10.1002/9781119075103 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Tony Crook ◽

John Henneberry ◽

Christine Whitehead

Keyword(s):

Planning Gain

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