Sustainable Urban Planning

BOX 3.7 Matrix for conservation with developmenta

NATIONALb(For the nation) REGIONALb(Communities of Concernd)

Pan-political guardianship Positioning: national, regional, local

Resource custody humbleness The regional spirit: a concomitant

Equal liberty and general equityj Attitude: progressive development

Reduce external debt and dependency Custodial regional politics

Maintain international parity Co-regional and within-nation dependency

Politics and policies of decentralization Husbandry in lieu of resource blowout

Impact defence: environmental, social, Impact defence: the regional emphasis

economic

Independent and non-nuclear: reduce Attitude: multiplier development

the military

Biculturalism within multiculturalism Reason regionally; act locally

Treat multinationals circumspectly Regional: urban-rural symbiosis: a journey

Eschew indiscriminate growth maximizing Seek to establish a dynamic harmony

Public ownership of common resources Dualistic: ‘interventions’ and ‘controls’

Promote energy-saving policies Recognition: no ‘away’ to throw waste ‘to’

Advocate import substitution Publicize energy-saving policies

Promote societally useful policies Impact-defence as regional policy

Regard ‘place’ seriously Combat pollution and resource degradation

Selective immigration and tariff policies State of the environment monitor-auditing

Institute ‘life cycle’ analysis

Neomodernist: quality of life paramount Promote ‘basic’ (export) development

Progressive employment and taxation Integrate the regional economy

policies

Stop borrowing: reduce national debt Seek out regional self-sufficiencies

Subsidiarity: self-service economic Balance: ecological accounting

organization

Inhibit unearned pathways to wealth Increase regional multiplier activity

Cut military expenditure drastically Low capital inputs per workplace

Within-nation ownership and profit taking Sustain within-region reinvestment

Aged: GRI to be GNP and population Reject junk commercel

indexedk

Youth: priorities start with pre-schooling Conduct development multiplier research

Fund environmental research

Recognition: unemployment is Development with nature: impact abatement

mismanagement

Shortened working week (longer working day) Recognition: communities of concern overlap

Integrity: political-bureaucratic-technocratic Promote bottom-up decision-making

Resolve production and sales Enforce common property resource policies

bottlenecks

Quota management of common Resolve throughput bottlenecks

property resources

Localize and privatize away from the centres Supply-side ‘carrots’ and demand-side ‘sticks’m

Resource management and impact abatement Establish development advice bureaux

Monitor environmental impacts and changes Labour-intensiveness avoiding drudgery

Nationally profitable may not be locally good Education: economics, ecology, development

SUSTAINABLE

RESOURCE

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ECONOMICSh

SUSTAINABLE

POLICYg

NEOMODERN

POLITICAL

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ThePOWERSsection of the Matrixis on pp. 108–9.

TheACTIONSsection of the Matrixis on pp. 110–11.