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Title: The urban


1
The urban
  • Related to cities and towns
  • size
  • density
  • heterogeneity
  • Chaos and order
  • Planning
  • Planners

2
Views on the urban
  • theatre and spectacle (Mumford) or alienation and
    anomie (Wirth)?
  • urbanism a way of life associated with life in
    an urban area
  • urbanization the process of becoming urban,
    including
  • relative and absolute growth in towns and cities
    within a defined area,
  • increasing proportion of population in urban
    areas and in largest urban area,
  • structural change such as economies of scale,
    concentration and centralization and
  • behavioural and cultural change

3
Planning
  • Definitions (Hall)
  • a physical representation
  • a method of doing
  • an orderly arrangement of parts of an objective
  • but also the act of creating order from chaos
  • direct the present along a trajectory aimed at
    particular futures

4
Planning and civil society
  • Civil - of or consisting of citizens of the
    commonwealth or state befitting the citizen
    polite legally recognized
  • Civil society
  • a way of thinking about power and the state
  • implies a tension among
  • the state (the political functioning of a
    society),
  • the economy (which, in capitalism, seeks to bend
    the state to its private purposes), and
  • community (the social and cultural functioning of
    a society in which embeddedness or alienation
    gain expression) (see Marris)
  • Planning articulates this tension and, as far as
    possible, resolves it

5
What planners do - RAPI
  • Planners assist government, private
    organisations, groups and individuals in the
    community to achieve their future objectives
    through developing relevant projects, policies,
    processes and plans.

6
RAPI
  • The planning profession aims to
  • Improve the quality of life of people.
  • Make living and working environments safe,
    healthy, efficient and aesthetically pleasing.
  • Plan for the future growth of regions, urban
    areas, industry and commerce, recreation and open
    space
  • Plan specific projects to ensure the most
    suitable relationship with the surrounding
    environment.
  • Planners are involved in the development and
    re-development of existing towns, cities and
    rural areas. The term town planner is sometimes
    misleading because planning is needed as much in
    rural and regional areas as in urban areas.

7
RAPI
  • The planner is trained to advise on the most
    appropriate types of land use for any given area.
    The planner must assess and plan current and
    future plans uses. For example, the case for
    conversion of farm and forest land to meet
    predicted housing needs, and whether or not
    offices should be allowed to spread into inner
    city housing areas.

8
RAPI
  • Planners also work in more specialized areas such
    as
  • economic development,
  • urban design,
  • tourism,
  • social planning and
  • environmental planning.

9
  • The planner must have knowledge of the various
    associated professions
  • architecture,
  • law,
  • engineering,
  • surveying,
  • economics,
  • sociology and
  • environmental management.
  • Geography????

10
Planners are usually employed in four areas
  • Government Planners are involved in all levels
    of Government from local councils to State and
    Federal Governments. Local Government is perhaps
    the biggest employer, with planners being
    responsible for planning and assessing
    development within their Council areas.
  • Private consultancies Consultants are most often
    employed by developers, local residents or on
    contract to local councils or other government
    bodies in Australia and overseas.

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and
  • Private Companies An increasing number of large
    companies employ their own planners on staff to
    handle development projects for that company.
  • A wide variety of other professions, including
    engineering, architecture, education, and
    environmental and recreation management also
    employ planners.
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