Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Steele, Wendy; Ruming, Kristian

doi:10.1080/02697459.2012.662670

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“…This categorization is simple, strongly justified and insightful and also interestingly coincides with Janin Rivolin's categorization of "conforming" and "performing" planning systems (Janin Rivolin, 2008). However, it ignores some important distinctions between continental European systems by putting them into a single category, while also giving undue importance to the formal legal characteristics of planning compared with its actual practice, where "discretionary systems" have been shown to be rigid in practice and "regulating in advance" zoning approaches applied with some flexibility (Cullingworth & Nadin, 2006;Steel & Ruming, 2012).…”

Section: "Planning Control In Western Europe"mentioning

confidence: 98%

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Nadin

Stead

2013

European Planning Studies

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It is two decades since the European Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies was conceived. Since its publication in 1997, the Compendium has become a widely cited reference in comparative planning literature. 1 It remains one of the few comprehensive reviews of spatial planning policy and practice across western Europe. The Compendium also represents one of the few studies to develop a typology for distinguishing between national planning systems. A number of comparative research studies on spatial planning have since built on the methodological foundations laid by the Compendium although its typology of national planning systems is not always used or interpreted as originally intended for a variety of reasons. In the context of extensive reform of planning approaches in Europe, the paper examines what can be learned about methodologies for international comparative research in planning based on the experience of the Compendium study and subsequent major comparative planning studies. We conclude that while broad typologies remain useful in explaining general trends, they may hide as much as they reveal. Future studies should widen the criteria used to build ideal types beyond formal characteristics in order to address planning in practice.

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Section: "Planning Control In Western Europe"mentioning

confidence: 98%

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Nadin

Stead

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…The main purpose was to promote economic activity and allow the State to quickly respond to an increasingly competitive global milieu. Red‐tape reductions, streamlining, and “one stop shop” development assessment processes emerged—primarily as a result of private sector criticisms of planning regulatory constraints, which were seen as inefficient, thwarting, and excessive (Ruming et al ., ; Steele & Ruming, ). This reform is consistent with the trend to neoliberalisation in spatial planning noted earlier.…”

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Discretion and the erosion of community trust in planning: reflections on the post‐political

Kwok

Johnson

Pojani

2018

Geographical Research

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In this study, performance‐based planning is implicated in the destabilisation of community trust in the planning system. Set in a contested inner city area of Brisbane, Australia, the research associates neoliberal planning objectives with the discretionary decision‐making specifically embedded in performance‐based planning. The neoliberalisation of planning is, we submit, symptomatic of a post‐ideological politics of consensus that actually erodes properly political moments and renders the political merely administrative. We explore these matters by reference to a particular case study involving a spatial planning project that resulted in height and density being extended to unprecedented levels, and competitive economic value and city branding being prioritised over the local value of the place. This discretionary action, limited formal participation opportunities, and existing low levels of community trust motivated local residents to mobilise against the plan and design alternatives. To understand the role of trust and participation in performance‐based planning, both in this case and more generally, a number of stakeholders were interviewed and surveyed to gather their views on participation, trust, and discretion in planning, and on the performance‐based planning system. A surprising research finding is that many stakeholders expressed trust in planning professionals but distrust in the planning system in which planners operate, and they did so on the understanding that the system gives unfettered priority to economic growth objectives.

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“…Following the 2011 state election, which saw the Liberal/National Coalition gain government, a new round of planning reform was initiated. The reform process included both a review of the regulatory and legislative planning frameworks, along with a new metropolitan strategic planning process (Ruming, ; Steele and Ruming, ). ‘Sydney over the next 20 years’ represents the first urban policy vision expressed by the new government and is the foundation of new metropolitan planning processes.…”

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Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans

Baker

Ruming

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article critically examines the expression of global spatial imaginaries in urban policy and planning. Following recent calls to understand how the global is 'made up' in and through cities, we argue for the usefulness of Roy and Ong's concept of 'worlding'. By analysing how strategic spatial plans envisage 'Global Sydney', the article reveals a constitutive spatial imaginary informed by the articulation of three interrelated elements: global city standards, comparative techniques and extra-local policy models. Unpacking how cities are selectively worlded through spatial imaginaries, the article advances an approach to urban globality as actively cultivated and differentially produced.We wish to thank Pauline McGuirk for her incisive comments on an earlier draft; Tom Baker gratefully acknowledges her guidance as doctoral supervisor. We also thank the three anonymous IJURR reviewers, whose suggestions helped clarify the article. The article benefited from feedback provided at the Institute of Australian Geographers (Sydney, 2012) and Urban Affairs Association (San Francisco, 2013) conferences.

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Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Opening up the Compendium: An Evaluation of International Comparative Planning Research Methodologies

Discretion and the erosion of community trust in planning: reflections on the post‐political

Making ‘Global Sydney’: Spatial Imaginaries, Worlding and Strategic Plans

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