The Capriciousness of Australian Planning Law: Zoning Objectives in NSW as a Case Study

This article considers the fickleness of application of the NSW land use planning system which, like other Australian jurisdictions, deals with 'command and control' of development proposals as they come forward. The nub of the regulation is zoning. As a case study, the article focuses on zoning objectives in statutory-based plans: their emergence, their haphazard development and impending downfall. Legal review of plans and decisions has a substantial and potentially negative effect on planning practice. A substantial part of the narrative relies on court judgments. There is also the problem of poorly contrived plans that invite legal challenge.     

实施"可持续"城市机动性政策的困难--以法国城市交通出行规划(PDU)为例

法国1996年的法律提出凡人口超过10万人的城市聚集区必须编制<城市交通出行规划>(简称PDU).为创造一个可持续的城市机动性条件,多模式交通、自行车、道路空间共享等措施成为具体的解决方案.但是,规划编制的条件、观划调控的手段以及考虑问题的空间尺度等方面的缺陷不仅阻止了这一新规划程序实现法律期望的减少小汽车交通量的目标,而且也制约了富有创新的地方政策的落实.笔者作为法国知名公共政策专家对PDU的总结分析,也为人们提供了分析评估公共政策的方法和参考框架.     

The fate of ideals in the real world: A long view on Philip Selznick's classic on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Philip Selznick’s first book—TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study in the Sociology of Formal Organization, 1949 TGR—tells the story of how the the ideals of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) were thwarted by the reality of political pressures from its environment. Although TGR boasts one of the highest citations for a scholarly work in management, project management scholars do not cite it. Why has project management scholarship lost one of its founding classics? We investigate why TGR meets the criteria of a classic. We show that TGR’s focus on societal outcomes and ideals is an improvement on conventional project management’s focus on technical outputs and efficiency. Moreover, TGR contributes process theories—e.g., goal displacement and values depletion—for how major projects often fail. We conjecture that project management scholars ignore TGR because it represents uncomfortable knowledge. Project management discipline is in a crisis. We call for a humanist paradigm shift.     

Suburban Resonance in Segrate,Milan: The Language of Locative Media in Defining Urban Sensitivity

Interactive platforms are opening up the possibility of an aural approach to spatial design. Raffaele Pe , a lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano, here examines the advantages of a locative media approach to architecture, urban and landscape design, with specific reference to the urban-rural Milanese suburb of Segrate, the focus of an investigative project led with his department.