Planning for Regional Renewal

Heywood, Philip R. (2005) Planning for Regional Renewal. In Proceedings Impacts of Planning - New Zealand Planning Institute & Planning Institute Australia Congress, Gold Coast Convention Centre.

Full text available as: PDF (Author-version) - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer.

Abstract

Integrated regional planning can help shape the social and physical renewal required to respond to current rapid change. Decision-taking can be devolved, participation promoted, regional networks of production and culture developed, coherent planning and servicing of settlements introduced beyond local government boundaries, and resource consumption and pollution controlled. Examples of success include regions in Europe and North America based on cultural self renewal, inclusive creativity, economic vitality and communication, self sustaining environmental quality and the empowering effects of participatory governance. Their planning can draw on a wide range of well established regional methods, ranging from long established central place theory to ideas of wholeness recently developed by Christopher Alexander (2002). Well established practices of advocacy, voluntarism, institutional innovation and regular evaluation can be linked to build the regional consciousness and institutions required to implement these solutions.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Status:	Unpublished
Keywords:	Regionalism; Regional Planning; Regional Governance; Social Evolution.
Subjects:	370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370107 Social Change 360000 Policy and Political Science > 360100 Political Science > 360103 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360201 Public Policy 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370100 Sociology > 370102 Social Policy and Planning 310000 Architecture, Urban Environment and Building > 310100 Architecture and Urban Environment > 310103 Urban and Regional Planning 370000 Studies in Human Society > 370400 Human Geography > 370401 Urban and Regional Studies 360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration > 360202 Public Administration
ID Code:	7945
Deposited By:	Heywood, Phil
Deposited On:	04 June 2007
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2005 the author.
Additional Information:	This paper demonstrates how the capacity for synthesis inherent in regional planning can be reflected in innovative forms of participation and governance, that can help societies adjust to current rates of rapid change in environmental, economic and social conditions.