Sustainable Urban Planning

at the highest strategic level the enhancement of ‘basic’ export opportunities and

‘multiplier’ effects (money and jobs). This is a continuing theme with the prag-

matic growth management practice passage which is to follow. The neomodern

guiding context from Agenda 21, together with the sustainability prognosis,

predicates that socially acceptable regional economic growth comes down, essen-

tially, to the practice of conservation withdevelopment.

The second half of this chapter attends to development planning and conservancy

practice in seven macro growth pattern contexts.^14

Macro Practice Patterns

Of practical consideration for both development projects and conservancy prac-

tice are macro practice patterns relating to:

• ‘Ownerships’ and ‘rights’ (p. 151)


• Urban-rural growth patterning (p. 156)


• Coastal zone management (p. 163)


• Agriculture and forestry (p. 166)


• Tourism (sustainable tourism) (p. 169)


• Unemployment alleviation (p. 181)


• Waste disposal management (p. 183)
  (Urban Growth Management – chapter 5)

Holding to the ethical and sustainability ideals extolled in earlier chapters,

while addressing the growth pattern management theme in this chapter, gives rise

to conflicts between notions of development and conservancy, differing patterns

of enthusiasm for regional growth and conservancy, different styles of transformer

processing and transactor management, different forms of profit-and-benefit

and loss-and-disbenefit, and different modes of procedure. Sustainable manage-

ment is an ideal, impractical of full achievement in growth-on-growth and

consumer-discard situations. Yet all of us can – some would have that as must

• adjust our ‘consume and discard’ ways in the direction of styles of resource
  uptake which are more sustainable and more ethical in intent and execution. These
  attitudes can infuse conservancy practice and development projects in the
  style of re-education, retargeting and reclaiming, all served by flows of better
  information.
  If behaving better as resource consumers and waste disposers is acknowledged
  as socially good, then this is best brought into the foreground than being obscured
  by a screen of deception about the potential of untapped resources and unproven
  technological fixes. There is another niggle: the reconciliation of sustainability
  ethics with growth, it being apparent in the real world that there is a large residual
  rump of opinion favouring continued growth-and-discard, come what may. Even
  though it is illogical, this hedonism exists as fact. Circumscriptions are set out in
  the seven listed policy sectors styled here as Growth Management Practice, their
  purpose being to signpost new directions for management in the style of sustain-

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