tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post4554197603239530252..comments2024-03-28T01:12:51.882-07:00Comments on The Pulse: Does town planning over promise and under deliver?Ross Elliotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10328089395446040400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post-14018126424680476092016-03-21T16:06:42.590-07:002016-03-21T16:06:42.590-07:00Great article Ross. I recently gave my assessment...Great article Ross. I recently gave my assessment of modern town planning to the Griffith Uni planning school; I mentioned that in my view, planning has been most effective where it has been employed as the leading edge of a plan-design-construct nexus, that is, where planning has been directly related to the development process. This has occurred in the case of new towns and master planned communities undertaken by either public sector or private sector development corporations, and in a variety of other public sector programs including BCC’s Urban Renewal Program, the South Bank Development, and the work of the ULDA/EDQ. These programs have all been conceived, led and managed by planners or other professionals with a strong planning ethos, and have produced good outcomes because planning has been directly related to implementation through environmental and infrastructure improvements and facilitation of complementary private development. Development assessment, by comparison, is a passive and indirect tool of plan implementation that has generally not created urban environments that inspire us. No wonder, given the way in which most town planning documents are now drafted, as you have pointed out.Guy Gibsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169649188894353230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post-4258348448467657252016-03-21T13:47:34.333-07:002016-03-21T13:47:34.333-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ghostwhorideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708987358579056477noreply@blogger.com