This tutorial we had the pleasure of being spoken too by Hamish Sinclair-the director of the planning institute of Australia who has worked in national, state and local government planning over many years. His talk was very insightful on the perils of planning and he went into depth on local planning issues and trends. His biggest critique of the profession being that whenever a plan is undertaken it is behind the times. Planning is based on the lessons from the past. Therefore the challenge is to incorporate expected trends and events in the future into current plans. To foresee such events and to integrate them into current plans are near impossible but is there an alternative? How should plans incorporate the future? Perhaps mechanisms should be enforced that once a plan is enforced that should any major disaster or event happen that it is easy to change the plan instead of having to go through the rigorous and tedious process of making amendment to plans. As the profession is dynamic, should the plans be too?
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Good discussion. Planning is not about today or tomorrow, it is about future. Thus it is very difficult. Of course the regulation is important to guide any planning application to be in the direction that upper strategy/vision target. What would be the most challenging thing in future plannig is how the cities can be resilient to cope with disasters and socio-economic changes.
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