Instruments of Planning: Tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities

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Rebecca Leshinsky (RMIT University, Australia) Crystal Legacy (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Instruments of Planning

Tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities

Rebecca Leshinsky (RMIT University, Australia), Crystal Legacy (University of Melbourne, Australia)

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Routledge
25 August 2015

Interdisciplinary studies; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: RTPI Library Series

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning’s instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes. Because each instrument is unique and may be tailored to its own jurisdictional needs, Instruments of Planning is a compendium of case studies from urban regions in Australia, Canada, the United States and Europe, providing readers with a collection that critically challenges the role and potential of planning instruments and instrumentality across a range of contexts.

Instruments of Planning captures the political, institutional, and economic challenges that confront planning. It examines planning instruments designed to assist with strategic planning and implementation, and considers the role that technology plays in unpacking and understanding complexity in planning.

Written by Rebecca Leshinsky and Crystal Legacy of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, this book fills the gap in planning theory about the instrumentality of planning in the neoliberal urban context. It is essential reading for students, urban researchers, policy analysts and planning practitioners.

Edited by: Rebecca Leshinsky (RMIT University Australia), Crystal Legacy (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781138812048
ISBN 10: 1138812048
Series: RTPI Library Series
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 25 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Planning instruments and the urban change process Part 1. Planning challenges in a context of discontinuous growth 2. Towards equitable intensification: Restricting developer gain and compensating planning costs 3. Freedom’s prospect? Re-thinking red and green tape reform as a planning instrument 4. The problem/solution nexus and its effects on public consultation Part 2. Designing strategies for change 5. Community deliberation as a procedural planning tool: Examination of Vancouver and Melbourne 6. Targets for affordable housing: Supporting equitable and sustainable urban growth 7. Social impact assessment: Strategic litigation tool for planning law decision makers 8. A design-led approach for enabling collective imagining of sustainable urban futures Part 3. Instruments to implement change 9. Would you like a code with that? Place-based planning and mapping neighbourhood fields of care 10. Transferable development credits put growth in its place 11. Managing urban intensification through conservation covenants 12. Regenerating cities: Creating the opportunity for greyfield precinct infill development Part 4. Technology in planning: Supporting urban policy and decision-making 13. Policy and planning on the interface of socio-technical systems: Novel approaches to policy development 14. Engaging the greyfields: Community engagement and co-design in residential redevelopment of public housing 15. Technology in urban planning: Spatial hedonic house price model as an information tool 16. Instruments of planning: tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities

Rebecca Leshinsky is a Senior Lecturer in Property, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and the author of a number of practitioner books in the areas of property and strata law. Crystal Legacy is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. She is co-editor of Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s safety and the right to the city (Routledge).

Reviews for Instruments of Planning: Tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities

"""Leshinsky and Legacy present a timely collection of state‐of‐the‐art chapters on current problems and creative solutions regarding spatial planning, law, and property rights. This book explores the pertinent question of who owns, who plans, and who has the power to facilitate change."" - Ben Davy, TU Dortmund University ""This book presents a collection of case studies and synthetic analyses speaking to the challenges confronting urban centers in light of the global push for neoliberal policies that privilege markets, competitiveness, and individual advancement, sometimes at the expense of individual equity and community welfare. It provides an important and timely check on how well conventional planning systems are positioned--or not--to address these larger forces, along with insights on how to reform those planning systems to better address challenges ahead."" - Richard K. Norton, University of Michigan"