Spatial issues are among the core political problems in the Netherlands. This book introduces the reader to the main aspects of Dutch Physical Planning regarding rural areas and the urban-rural transition zones. - (AGD)
Plans, policies and inter-governmental relations: assessing the role of national planning guidance in England and Wales
England and Wales ; Government intervention ; Land use ; Legislation ; Local development ; Local policy ; United Kingdom ; Urban planning ; Urban policy
Central government has modified its planning remit and had recently utilised its land-use obligation to set parameters on planning control and policy matters at the local level. The current form of national advice is contained within the series
of Planning Policy Guidance Notes. The role and significance of PPGs is considered in planning practice at the local district authority level, in relation to the introduction of recent planning legislation.
1997
[b1] Dept. of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
Planning doctrine and post-industrial urban development: the Amsterdam experience
Amsterdam ; Centrality ; Netherlands (The) ; Urban district ; Urban function ; Urban planning ; Urban population ; Urban structure
The planners of the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (1935) developed a doctrine that covers three levels of functions and activities (a regional centre, a monocentric urban form, homogeneous neighbourhood communities around a centre). Since
the early 1970s Amsterdam has become an international centre, has developed into a polycentric urban region and has been acquiring ethnically mixed quarters. So in Amsterdam the planning doctrine was not particularly successful.
British land-use planning : a failure to cope with change ?
Great Britain ; Land use ; Planning ; Retail trade ; Transport ; United Kingdom ; Urban planning
The paper opens with a summary of the background to and the ambitions of the post-war planning system. The issues are illustrated by a brief look at three policy areas (new settlements, retailing and transport). Government has acted as a mediator
Environment ; Environmental management ; Land use ; Natural resources ; Planning ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
The paper explores the conflicts surrounding environmental compensation as sustainable development is translated into policy and practice in the British planning system. Analysis at two levels (national planning policy and the negotiation
of compensatory habitat creation for a specific development scheme) indicates that the pursuit of the compensation through present planning processes can serve to accomodate development interests.
1997
[b1] Dep. of Country and Regional Planning, Univ. of Wales, Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
Towards the participation of children and young people in urban planning and design
Children ; Citizenship ; Education ; Legislation ; Participation ; Public space ; Urban area ; Urban planning
The general absence of academic analysis means that there are few proposals as to how such participation can be effective. The incorporation into urban planning and design debates of a different concept of the child together with new strategies
Decision ; Decision aid ; Environment ; Geographical information system ; Germany ; Legislation ; Nature conservation ; Planning ; Space
the taks and processes of ecologically oriented municipal planning. Some problems of the application of the Eingriffsregelung (compensation regulation), a planning instrument of the german law for nature protection, are discussed. At last, some deficiencies
of GIS for decision support concerning municipal planning are pointed out. - (MT)
Planning environmental racism : the construction of the industrial suburb in Los Angeles County in the early twentieth century
California ; Garden city ; Historical geography ; Industrialization ; Los Angeles ; Racism ; Suburbs ; United States of America ; Urban environment ; Urban planning
An analysis of the role of urban planners in creating environmental inequalities in Los Angeles County in the early twentieth century, with special consideration of the industrial suburb of Torrance. Author finds environmental racism to have been
Scrutiny and direction : implications of government intervention in the development plan process in England
England ; Government intervention ; Local development ; Participation ; Planning ; Regional development ; United Kingdom
Rôle et implications du gouvernement central dans le processus de développement planifié en Angleterre. Etapes de la préparation du plan en tant que prélude à la discussion. Deux études de cas faisant intervenir le secrétaire d'Etat à
l'environnement auprès des autorités locales de Islington et de Bolton. Discussion sur le rôle de la participation et des enquêtes publiques dans la préparation des plans de développement.
American planning in the 1990s : part II, the dilemma of the cities
Business district ; Community ; Inner city ; Local development ; Planning ; Poverty ; Research ; United States of America ; Urban planning ; Urban policy
1997
[b1] Dep. of City and Regional Planning, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Etats-Unis
The effect of environmental assessment on UK local planning authority decisions
Environmental assessment is intended to ensure that environmental considerations are properly weighted in the decisions made by local authorities on planning applications. Forty case studies are analysed by examining relevant documentation
L'économie roumaine en 1996-1997 : renouveau politique et plan de stabilisation
Europe centrale et orientale. Croissance économique et éléments du niveau de vie en 1996-1997
La donne sociale pèse lourd en Roumanie, où la reprise de l'inflation et le creusement des déficits budgétaire et commercial ont conduit le nouveau pouvoir à mettre sur le métier un troisième plan de stabilisation.
The pulse of citizenship : reflections on Griffith Taylor and Nation-Planning
education, and encompasses the inauguration of a recognisably academic geography in Austalia. The discussion extracts a few lessons from Taylor's approach to Nation-Planning to suggest an appropriate orientation to current reformism in Australian education.
but is one of the claims to be subjected to decision making. Managing the demand of water in the framework of the objectives of a national socio-economic development plan is a challenge in the water planning process. This planning requires strong mechanisms