Sustainable Urban Planning

toward managerial class desires and cohort values. This underscores the case
made out earlier for mandatory ‘continuing professional development’ and the
need to join a Planners for Social Responsibility grouping in pursuit of the ‘triple
bottom line’ – equitable growth, social wellbeing and environmental harmony.

With Sustainable and Ethical Intent

New styles of libertarian administration at worst cleave to well-intentioned but
wrong-footed practices of the past and, at bestfall in line with the six-point ‘com-
munity transaction’ canon outlined earlier – pursuing triple-balanced outcomes.
This approach justifies various policy removals (political deviousness, legal
obfuscation, fiscal chicanery); policy remedies (real jobs, benign technologies, ter-
ritorial connectedness, identity clarification); policy additions (management by
objectives, political cooperation), and social connectedness (enablement, empow-
erment and capacity fulfilment). In those terms the crucial issue is to get clever –
not always to attempt smartways of ‘talking’ or ‘buying’ a way through, but to
‘think’ ‘perform’ and ‘negotiate’ a cleverly informed way around.

Hold to the following:

• Planning for urban and rural settings, and regional purposes, provides a
  forum for operating strategically within a spatial setting (bounded reality) and
  in a political realm which has the public interest as its community purpose. It
  seeks to infuse an improved future quality and diversity of life, and thereby
  embodies conservation with development, and is trans-generational.


• Planning manages human effects upon the natural environment, and sets out
  to conserve the natural heritage, to restore impaired ecosystems, to maintain
  material wellbeing, to preserve the cultural heritage, and to represent and
  moderate the needs of all interest groups.


• In capsule terms conservation withdevelopment aspires to a homologous trio:
  equitable material growth, social wellbeing, environmental harmony – the
  ‘triple bottom line’. It is learned and provided as both a ‘transactor’ and a
  ‘transformer’ activity: a future-shaping delivery process that seeks ‘sustain-
  ably and indefinitely’ to fashion worthy humanized environments and con-
  serve the natural and cultural heritage.


• Development planning and conservation practice are social
  services which strive to improve the quality of life, respect
  first people’s treaties and international protocols, uphold
  cultural values and gender emancipation, and to maintain
  uncorrupted and ethically correct positions.

The foregoing involves the concomitant identification and endorsement of
socially responsible (enabling-empowering), and environmentally acceptable
(sustainable-protective) projects. Yet at any future date a new technology (cheap
mass hydrogen production, effective superconductivity), or a new ideology

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Conservation with

development seeks a

triple-balanced

harmony–

• material growth


• social wellbeing


• healthy habitat.