How the lessons learned from the SC-courses have influenced your work and working methods? What obstacles you have faced? How can sustainable urban planning be enforced in reality? What is needed to improve the situation?
Please comment here! Reflect to your own experiences in your home country and to your own case study.
Thank you all! It was great discussion! Quite clearly these issues came up; political support, transparency, environmental issues as part of planning process, participatory methods and gaps in education.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any other issues you'd like to highlight?
Yes, I agree with you Matleena. I think the discussion went well today.
ReplyDeleteIt was also interesting to know how the planning profession in different parts of the world fairs especially on how it is linked to other professions like public administration, architecture, civil engineering, environmental management and the like.
When we tackled the topic on the "Development Stages in the Urban Planning" based on Mr. Lujanen's lecture, I thought it was also interesting to know each participant's country's experiences related to each stages. Although the stages presented in the lecture are general stages that were observed globally, different cities might have experienced or approached these stages differently or at a varying level according to their context.
And by the way, speaking of "context" I think this was clearly one of Raf's main points in his lecture last week when he said that there is no single and uniform model of planning that can be applied (and will work effectively) for ALL cities because each has their own context, history, and circumstances as they respond to the complexities they encounter. It thought this was really a good introduction lecture for us last week since it gives us a perspective on how we can go about in our future sessions as we discuss planning issues and concerns with different planners from different parts of the world.
ReplyDeleteThank you again. It was a productive and meaningful discussion today we had. I support the idea of Nadia that it would be intersting if each of us may discuss the patterns, perspectives and pressnet trends of planning in our contexts. Also if we could foreseen the future planning trends in our cases as well...
ReplyDeleteThanks, this time i manged to download soloman's lecture slides the once in PDF format.
Matleena, when I replayed the discussion I noticed that you were saying something to me at the end when I was away..what was the question?
have you all nice time and nice weakend
greetings, Ali