Conference report Plonning's future - futures planning: planning in an era of global (un)certainty and transformation The 3rd World Planning Schools Congress Perth, Western Australia, 4-8 July 2011

摘要

The Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) had an ambitious idea for the new millennium — an international conference of planning educators that was launched with the 2001 World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) in Shanghai. The objective is to bring together the finest scholars from nine regional associations of planning schools, every five years. Following the 2006 congress in Mexico City, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) volunteered to organise the 2011 congress in Perth, Western Australia. The principal advantage of a joint academic congress is the opportunity to interact with scholars from many different regions, but transporting the participants to one location can be challenging. So GPEAN and ANZAPS were taking a risk — would the global planning academy assemble in Western Australia?