Bruce Stiftel

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education. Comparing approaches to the delivery of planning education by three major planning education accreditation bodies in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and reflecting concerns from other national planning systems, this handbook will help to meet the strong interest and need for understanding how planning education is developed and delivered in different international contexts.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for research and debate.

Set in context by the editors' introductory chapter, these essays draw on local concerns but also reflect international issues. These include the relationship between planning and economy; concerns over the environment and conservation; the nature of the planning process and decision-making, and the effects of power on planned change.

This book is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on regional competitions.

First published in 1988. This book has grown from a research workshop that began at the University of North Carolina under the direction of Maynard Hufschmidt. Professor Hufschmidt's long-held interest in the incorporation of environmental and other social values into benefit-cost analysis led to a research project entitled, "The Role of Environmental Indicators in Water Resource Planning and Policy Development," funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior. That project brought together the authors of this volume for a two-year period during which the groundwork for this book was laid.

This report has been developed by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and UN-Habitat based on the outcomes of 2021 Innovate4Cities Conference co-sponsored by UN-Habitat, GCoM and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is intended to inform research, policy and public discussions on the global research and action agenda for cities and climate change science. The authors have sought to ensure the accuracy of the material in this document, but they will not be liable for any ramifications incurred through the use of this report.

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and cooperation, planning, governance, finance and learning that can sustain positive change. The Report unequivocally demonstrates that the current urbanization model is unsustainable in many respects. It conveys a clear message that the pattern of urbanization needs to change in order to better respond to the challenges of our time, to address issues such as inequality, climate change, informality, insecurity, and the unsustainable forms of urban expansion.

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The need for planning cannot be over-emphasized. Urbanization is progressing rapidly and by 2050, seven out of ten people will be living in cities. Inappropriate policies, plans and designs have led to inadequate spatial distribution of people and activities, resulting in proliferation of slums, congestion, poor access to basic services, environmental degradation, and social inequity and segregation.

The International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning serve both as a source of inspiration and a compass for decision makers and urban professionals when reviewing urban and territorial planning systems. The Guidelines provide national governments, local authorities, civil society organizations and planning professionals with a global reference framework that promotes more compact, socially inclusive, better integrated and connected cities and territories that foster sustainable urban development and are resilient to climate change.

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Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization.

It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and ageing, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality.

It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.

The United Nation’s New Urban Agenda has created a playbook for planning advocates. It opens possibilities for building inclusive, integrated urban planning in countries where planning has been top-down and limited in scope. Yet it raises concerns about ignoring the power of industry and imposition of global ideas inappropriate to national contexts. Success will require strengthened capacity building for the urban professions, and sensitivity in adapting global best practices to national contexts.

The introduction to the first volume of the global best papers series published by the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) in conjunction with Routledge/Taylor and Francis, recalls the rise and current status of the Planning Schools Movement over the last half of the 20th Century from the founding of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in 1959 until the first World Planning Schools Congress in Shanghai in 2001.  The chapter then calls for greater global cross-fertilization of scholarship in urban planning:

"As a profession with widely disparate traditions and broad interdisciplinary
connections, we have significant differences across national boundaries. International
comparisons force us to re-evaluate our national decisions about the
structure and nature of our discipline and to understand better why we choose
to do what we do, and the way we do it.

"As a profession entangled with national legal and institutional structures,
our scholarship has often lacked variation in key variables. Communication across
national boundaries has the potential to increase variation in our scholarship and
to therefore reduce the level of assumption which we must use in our work.

"Finally, given the extent of difficulty planning schools often have explaining
their purposes and justifying their cost structures within universities, the growth
of international cooperation allows us to gain new ideas about how to effectively
represent our accomplishments and our purposes to our own institutional leaders."

... 15 Jill Grant 3 Uncertain legacy: Sydney's Olympic stadiums 37 Glen Searle ... 59 Juan D. Lombardo, Mercedes DiVirgilio, and Leonardo Fernández, with Natalia DaRepresentaçao and Victoria Bruschi 5 Designing whole landscapes 88 ...

Des agences publiques de mediation de conflits ont emerge a l'echelle des Etats americains au milieu des annees 1980, dans l'idee de surmonter les obstacles relatifs a l'utilisation de la mediation comme methode alternative de resolution des conflits publics. Des etablissements de ce type ont ete etablis dans dix-huit Etats. L'analyse de l'un d'entre eux, le Consortium de Floride pour la Resolution des Conflits Publics, permet de rendre compte de leur utilite dans l'evaluation de la mediation de conflits publics, ainsi que dans l'organisation de procedures basees sur une plus grande cooperation. Le Consortium de Floride a demontre son utilite en surmontant un bonne partie des obstacles relatifs a la mise en oeuvre de la mediation. Les preoccupations de depart se sont inflechies, pour refleter les experiences vecues au cours de ces dix dernieres annees. Les ambitions premieres, visant le developpement de mecanismes de financement stables, ont ete servies par le developpement de procedures reglementaires ou creees par le service pour traiter des filieres de cas similaires. Les idees et les techniques de mediation se sont revelees utiles aussi bien dans l'elaboration de consensus et la resolution de conflits d'interet public au sens large, que pour les conflits dans l'impasse. La plus grande famille des methodes alternatives de resolution des conflits, comprenant la facilitation et l'amelioration des negociations, apparait importante aussi bien pour la pratique des conflits publics que pour la mediation en elle-meme. Enfin, dans une ere de privatisation, ces agences publiques jouent un role critique dans le developpement d'un marche viable pour les societes de services privees de resolution de conflits

ABSTRACT Urban planners are often viewed as weak voices of reason in a violent sea of power responsive to speculators, developers and business interests. Planners' influence seems tied to their ability to command information and to foster consensus among interested stakeholders. This is frequently problematic. Planners bargain at two tables. That is, they must negotiate with adversaries/external organizations while they also negotiate with factions within their own organizations to determine positions. Such two-table circumstances often result in unclear goals for planners, who are also constrained by statutes and other legal impediments to the exercise of public authority. In the UK, development control officers are the central figures facilitating both the intra-organizational table and the inter-organizational table. They lead the processes of developer-government negotiation over land development in a national legal context widely understood to be characterized by broad local government discretion. There is every reason to believe that, if any planners exert strong power in negotiations, it would be British development control officers. Yet, their work is subject to many pressures: many local agencies have a stake in proposals and argue vocally; decisions are often actually made by elected local councils who value constituent opinion; appeals to the Planning Inspectorate are frequent and often successful. The paper is based on research examining development control processes in Cardiff, Wales, seeking to improve understanding of whether planners enter permitting decisions with the knowledge they need to negotiate effectively, and are influential in steering applicants toward desired objectives. Detailed analysis of 6 case studies of land permit review, ranging from a house extension to a new 900 unit estate. After review of formal applications and file documents, researchers observed public meetings of planning staff and applicants, internal agency staff meetings, and interviewed staff, applicants and interveners. Findings assess the effectiveness of planners in managing the two tables required to negotiate development permits, point toward the impact of the second table in facilitating or limited the success of planners in achieving city policies, and suggest operational procedures that might help planners to

Urban planners are often viewed as weak voices of reason in a violent sea of power responsive to speculators, developers and business interests. Planners' influence seems tied to their ability to command information and to foster consensus among interested stakeholders. Indeed, theories of planning in the past twenty years have focused on planners adoption of strategies for avoiding political opposition

Bruce Stiftel is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay is a doctoral student and Research Assistant, in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, PO Box 3062280, ...