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Frontiers of Planning: Visionary Futures for Human Settlements ISOCARP | REVIEW 09 ISOCARP The International Society of City and Regional President Planners (ISOCARP) is a global association of Milica Bajić-Brković, Serbia experienced professional planners. It was founded (Past President– 2009-2012) in 1965 in a bid to bring together recognised and ISOCARP Ismael Fernández Mejía, Mexico highly-qualified planners in an international network. REVIEW 09 About ISOCARP The ISOCARP network brings together individual and Secretary General institutional members from more than 70 countries Alexander Macgregor, United Kingdom worldwide. As a non-governmental organisation Treasurer ISOCARP is recognized by the UN, UNHCS and the Manfred Schrenk, Austria Council of Europe. The Society also has a formal consultative status with UNESCO. Vice-Presidents Although ISOCARP members work in many different Members – National Delegations: fields they share a common interest in the spatial ISOCARP Executive Committee 2013 Khalid El Adli, Egypt and environmental dimensions of urbanisation. They Awards and Communication: advise key decision-makers, proposing and supporting Dirk Engelke, Germany Frontiers of Planning: projects for intervention in a spatial context through general or specific actions. Congresses and Events (2011-May 2013): The objectives of ISOCARP include the improvement Jeremy Dawkins, Australia of planning practice through the creation of a Urban Planning Advisory Teams: global and active network of practitioners. ISOCARP Martin Dubbeling, the Netherlands encourages the exchange of professional knowledge Young Planning Professionals: between planners, promotes the planning profession Piotr Lorens, Poland in all its forms, stimulates and improves planning research, training and education and enhances public Publications: awareness and understanding of major planning Shi Nan, China issues at a global level. Academic Development – ISOCARP Institute: Visionary futures for human settlements The association‘s main event is the annual World David Prosperi, United States Congress, which focuses on a globally-significant planning theme and which takes place in a different Technical Assistance – Projects: country each year. Prior to the congress Young Shipra Narang Suri, India Planning Professional Workshops are organized. This YPP programme seeks to bring together emerging Frontiers of Planning: young planning professionals from all over the world to tackle ‘real-world’ planning projects. Smaller-scale events such as seminars and working groups are also organised. International Society of City Visionary futures All ISOCARP activities are covered in publications such and Regional Planners as the ISOCARP Review, the International Manual of Gaby Kurth, Programme Manager Planning Practice (IMPP), Congress proceedings and Monica Ornek, Office Manager special project reports. for human settlements ISOCARP recognises excellence through the Society’s P.O. Box 983 Award programme. 2501 CZ The Hague ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory teams (UPATs) The Netherlands ISOCARP Headquarters assists sponsor organizations by offering the extensive Tel: + 31-70 346-2654 experience and expertise of ISOCARP members to Fax: + 31-70 361-7909 work on important local or international planning [email protected] projects, programs and policy initiatives. www.isocarp.org Editors: Jim Colman and Chris Gossop cover_review_final_CMYK.indd 1 8/28/13 5:17 PM ISOCARP | REVIEW 09 ISOCARP The International Society of City and Regional President Planners (ISOCARP) is a global association of Milica Bajić-Brković, Serbia experienced professional planners. It was founded (Past President– 2009-2012) in 1965 in a bid to bring together recognised and ISOCARP Ismael Fernández Mejía, Mexico highly-qualified planners in an international network. REVIEW 09 About ISOCARP The ISOCARP network brings together individual and Secretary General institutional members from more than 70 countries Alexander Macgregor, United Kingdom worldwide. As a non-governmental organisation Treasurer ISOCARP is recognized by the UN, UNHCS and the Manfred Schrenk, Austria Council of Europe. The Society also has a formal consultative status with UNESCO. Vice-Presidents Although ISOCARP members work in many different Members – National Delegations: fields they share a common interest in the spatial ISOCARP Executive Committee 2013 Khalid El Adli, Egypt and environmental dimensions of urbanisation. They Awards and Communication: advise key decision-makers, proposing and supporting Dirk Engelke, Germany Frontiers of Planning: projects for intervention in a spatial context through general or specific actions. Congresses and Events (2011-May 2013): The objectives of ISOCARP include the improvement Jeremy Dawkins, Australia of planning practice through the creation of a Urban Planning Advisory Teams: global and active network of practitioners. ISOCARP Martin Dubbeling, the Netherlands encourages the exchange of professional knowledge Young Planning Professionals: between planners, promotes the planning profession Piotr Lorens, Poland in all its forms, stimulates and improves planning research, training and education and enhances public Publications: awareness and understanding of major planning Shi Nan, China issues at a global level. Academic Development – ISOCARP Institute: Visionary futures for human settlements The association‘s main event is the annual World David Prosperi, United States Congress, which focuses on a globally-significant planning theme and which takes place in a different Technical Assistance – Projects: country each year. Prior to the congress Young Shipra Narang Suri, India Planning Professional Workshops are organized. This YPP programme seeks to bring together emerging Frontiers of Planning: young planning professionals from all over the world to tackle ‘real-world’ planning projects. Smaller-scale events such as seminars and working groups are also organised. International Society of City Visionary futures All ISOCARP activities are covered in publications such and Regional Planners as the ISOCARP Review, the International Manual of Gaby Kurth, Programme Manager Planning Practice (IMPP), Congress proceedings and Monica Ornek, Office Manager special project reports. for human settlements ISOCARP recognises excellence through the Society’s P.O. Box 983 Award programme. 2501 CZ The Hague ISOCARP Urban Planning Advisory teams (UPATs) The Netherlands ISOCARP Headquarters assists sponsor organizations by offering the extensive Tel: + 31-70 346-2654 experience and expertise of ISOCARP members to Fax: + 31-70 361-7909 work on important local or international planning [email protected] projects, programs and policy initiatives. www.isocarp.org Editors: Jim Colman and Chris Gossop cover_review_final_CMYK.indd 1 8/28/13 5:17 PM ISOCARP · Review 09 Frontiers of Planning: Visionary futures for human settlements Editors: Jim Colman and Chris Gossop 2013 © Copyright 2013 by International Society of City and Regional Planners All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Authorship Responsibility: the original author is responsible for the content of the manuscript. Editors Editor-in-Chief: Shi Nan, ISOCARP VP, China Editor: Jim Colman, ISOCARP, Australia Editor: Chris Gossop, ISOCARP, United Kingdom Coordinator Lucian Perici, Design2Read, the Netherlands Designer Ricardo Moura, Portugal ( www.ricardomoura.pt ) Copy-Editor Andrew Hitchen, United Kingdom ISBN 978‐94‐90354‐21‐3 Cover Photo © Image courtesy of Brisbane Marketing ISOCARP’s partner for this issue: Urban Planning Society of China Printed in China by Beijing BOHS Colour Printing Co., Ltd Lifeguards ensuring the safety of people Order online at: at the man-made lagoon and beach at South Bank. http://publications.isocarp.org/ © Image courtesy of Brisbane Marketing Lifeguards ensuring the safety of people at the man-made lagoon and beach at South Bank. © Image courtesy of Brisbane Marketing CONTENTS 6 Foreword One Milica Bajic´-Brkovic´ 7 Foreword Two John Minnery 8 Editorial Jim Colman and Chris Gossop 14 Climate Change, the Future, and the Frontier for Planning Ethan Seltzer 28 The Influence of Planning Standards on the Long Term Sustainability of Settlements: Evidence from Dar es Salaam Wolfgang Scholz · Janepher Shedrack Tanya Dayaram · Peter Robinson 46 Cross Border Planning and Cooperation in A Trinational Agglomeration Area Nicole Wirz Schneider 60 Urban Regeneration and Its Role in City Planning: Perspectives from Spain Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz 80 Canberra as an Exemplar of International Orientations in City and Regional Planning Karl F. Fischer · James Weirick 96 Investigating the Motivations, Rhetoric and Controversy Surrounding Recent Planning Reforms in New South Wales, Australia and Ontario, Canada Laura Schatz · Awais Piracha 110 Auckland, New Zealand 2040: A Resilient, Linear City-Region Dushko Bogunovich 122 Planning In Oceania: The Case of Tonga George Mal Horner 142 Urban and Social Planning Through Public-Private Partnership: The Case of The Bonnyrigg Living Communities Project, Sydney Australia Dallas Rogers 156 Beautiful China: The Experience of Jiangsu’s Rural Village Improvement Program Fulong Wu · Lan Zhou 170 Planning for Low Carbon Eco-cities in China – New Pathways Stanley C. T. Yip 188 The Big Jump Forwards: An Example of China’s Pursuit towards a New Pattern of Growth
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