The future of planning: beyond growth dependence

摘要

The way we plan our cities is a complicated endeavor that relies on a variety of actors with varying degrees of power, control, and influence over the decisions that shape urban environments and concurrently the social and political spaces of the city. In the past 40 years, the process of urban development has focused on growth while public resources to affect urban change have dwindled. Growth as a formative basis for urban planning was facilitated and adopted by the institutions of planning through a normative movement toward 'collaborative planning'. Yvonne Rydin critiques this commitment to growth in The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence. She suggests that growth-dependent planning has tended to embed, legitimate, and normalize the presence of large corporate and private actors who were able to yield power and influence over the processes and outcomes of urban planning and thus redefined the context of urban governance.