Skills for Planning Practice

Kitchen, Ted

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-21292-3

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“…More than the number of employees is the ability of planners, as their role is changing. They are no longer just plan producers, but more and more brokers (Kitchen 2006), who must know more than just the content of the spatial law. Informal solutions of system weaknesses and strengthening of management capacity was also proposed by the ESPON study (2006), after which it is necessary to improve vertical cooperation between national and local level, which also proved weak in our study.…”

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Planning capacity of Slovenian municipalities

Marot¹

2010

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Spatial planning is one of the major legal duties for Slovenian municipalities. The planning framework is legally defined in the Spatial Planning Act which is frequently modified. Thus, municipalities need to adhere to changes very often. The capability of a municipality to adapt to new obligations and conditions influences delivery of spatial development. In a doctoral research we analyzed the capacity of municipalities to implement the planning act, i.e. what is the planning governance capacity of Slovenian municipalities. Thirteen indicators were defined and data were collected with the help of a questionnaire and secondary sources. These indicators were then used to produce the typology of management capacity in the field of planning. We also tested whether the size and spatial characteristics of a municipality affected the final result of this classification. Fifty-five municipalities were classified into three groups: municipalities with poor conditions for the implementation of spatial planning legislation (37 municipalities), municipalities with fair conditions for the implementation of spatial planning legislation (17 municipalities) and the Municipality of Ljubljana as the municipality with the best conditions. Groups differ in human resource solutions, finance consumption, frequency of participation of stakeholders and their impact. Comparison between the size and typology of governance showed their mutual dependence, and therefore in different sized municipalities we find different governance capacities. Finally, some suggestions for better spatial governance are proposed.

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Planning capacity of Slovenian municipalities

Marot¹

2010

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“…Various accounts of teaching practice in work-based education curricula, such as work placements, have demonstrated the potential for the planning discipline of developing Schön's seminal idea of the reflective planning practitioner (1983; 1987). This has been evidenced through work-placement-based education for postgraduate students in the UK (Manns, 2003); planning internships in the USA (Brooks, Nocks, Farris, & Cunningham, 2002); and placement programmes for undergraduates in Australia (Coiacetto, 2004).Whilst there is no one standard model, work placements have generally been seen to provide an invaluable and distinctive form of learning, offering not only training for skills and competence (Kitchen, 2007), but a grounded approach to the development of meaningful theory and professional identity (Coiacetto, 2004). However, work placements have long been identified as posing 'some of the greatest teaching and learning challenges in the entire curriculum' (Kotval, 2003, p. 297).…”

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How best to assess students taking work placements? An empirical investigation from Australian urban and regional planning

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Steele

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Higher Education Pedagogies

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a school of global, urban and social studies, rMit university, Melbourne, australia; b school of environment, griffith university, Brisbane, australia ABSTRACT Work placements (including internships) are common in urban and regional planning education but the relevant literature has largely overlooked their assessment and academic standards. To address this gap, the paper presents a study of this topic undertaken within the Australian context. The research involved systematically scoping the status of work placements in planning education in Australia, and exploring the perspectives of participating educators, practitioners and students on appropriate assessment methods and academic standards. We found significant and problematic divergence in these three key stakeholders' perspectives. The implications of these findings are discussed in a national and international context. The consequent proposition is an approach to assessment and standards that promotes a shared understanding across these key stakeholders. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Reflecting on their practice experience, as suggested by Kitchen (2007), disappointment with the development outcomes was common. In terms of plans, one interviewee suggested:…”

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“…Indeed, Kitchen (2007) reports that the usual reaction to visualizations (traditional or computer generated) by elected members and residents was not to trust what they are shown, suggesting that 'this is material designed to show the development in the best possible light, especially when it emanated from the proposers of the development, and therefore cannot be relied upon ' (p. 203). Similar practitioner concerns have also been reported elsewhere (Appleton & Lovett, 2005;McQuillan, 1998;Sheppard, 2001, chap.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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