The Planning Game Summary

During week four the class focused on the world of the planner and how a planner can take different equity oriented roles or approaches. With the online assignment and reading I was able to discover the benefits and disadvantages being a planner has. One of the benefits planners have is access to more information and data than most people in their agency and more importantly the knowledge

3 Person-centred planning reflects upon a person’s capacities, what is important to a person (now and for the future) and specifies the support they require to make a valued contribution to their community. Services are delivered in the context of the life a person chooses and not about slotting people into “gaps”.

Planners' focus was shifting from the somewhat rarified, nineteenth-century preoccupation with creating the City Beautiful (by means of monumental urban design projects) to more mundane concerns like managing land use, curbing congestion, and reforming municipal government practices. A range of reform agendas coalesced during these years, giving birth to what was soon called a "city planning" movement. Its proponents proudly devoted equal attention to questions of design, infrastructure, public health, and public administration (Freund, Colored Property,

In developing this Plan, the City undertook an extensive community engagement process to understand the community’s aspirations and to establish a foundation based on the vision for the future.” Yes, there are developments aside for continuing to provide the best quality of education, transportations, housing and job

Changing the perspective from character to character would definitely have an impact on the story. If the main characters were changed every single book would differ significantly. For instance, in 1925 auto-biography titled Mein Kampf the world is flipped on its head. Adolf Hitler is the protagonist and the world through his eyes are much different than ours.

The US constitution states it is the citizen’s right to bear arms. (US Constitution art II) The right to bear arms is a right, although not necessarily required in today’s world. What is the purpose for having firearms on a college campus across the US? College campuses should be considered a safe haven to further education, expand our thoughts, ideas and maintain enlightened citizenry. Fostering a place of self-growth and improvement is critical to nourishing the U.S. democratic ideals.  You can’t be comfortable in any learning environment if you are thinking about guns and their presence. Guns could be use as intimidation if they are carried openly in a classroom. I feel the restrictions on gun ownership are not severe enough when it comes to owning and possessing a gun. So let’s tighten them up and keep guns off our campuses.

As children we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. I remember giving the rather un-realistic answer of "superstar" at the time. I struggled with finding a path that suited me for awhile; however now that I am older and have a better understanding of the world, I have the answer to what I want to be, and that is an urban planner. According to the American Planning Association (American Planning Association, 2013), "Planning, also called urban planning or city and regional planning, is a dynamic profession that works to improve the welfare of people and their

While the plan appears to be thorough and complete, this very characteristic may also prove to be a weakness. As sustainable technologies and even planning methodologies improve, a plan as cohesive as the current Portland Plan may leave little breathing room to accommodate the integration of future improvements without large investments and comprehensive re-planning. In addition, plans as comprehensive as this one is tend to leave less room for the creative expression, which adds diversity and charm to the cities neighborhoods. In terms of raw efficiency, the choice to make this plan a joint effort between the city government and the citizens themselves, though a noble cause, can cause each step to take much longer, and even the delay of the project in its entirety due to the volatility of entire populations. One final risk of the plan, is the risk associated with time. As any program needs money to continue on, people must continue to vote for the Portland Plan’s various programs over the years in order for them to maintain funding, so that they may continue bringing about the sustainable Portland as exists within the plan. The plan is to take place over 25-years, over the course of which any number of variables may change. The issue is things may change over the course of those 25-years, that could cause people to lose support for the plans various programs. Likewise, over

Everyday decision are made that influence our lives either it is from the private sector or the public sector. Many of those decisions come from the planning and development, therefore effecting the places we live, play, shop and work. Evansville, Indiana is no different and the people of Evansville continue to look to developers and planners to aid in the growth of Evansville. A Comprehensive Plan is a basic guideline that aids in the development of a region by laying out the foundation for future growth and working to meet the goals the people envision. The purpose of this paper is to review and assess goals of the Evansville Area Planning Commission (EAPC), in addition to the move towards sustainability under the “Renew Evansville Plan.

By thinking, analyzing, and planning, one can conquer tasks that were thought to be impossible at first (Gonzales 96). When the man forgot to build a fire, he laughed at his foolishness (London 82). This shows that planning was no top priority for

In personal opinion, city planners can address the needs of all classes of people living within in it by implementing services and goods that offer the quality they aspire to surround themselves with. For example, something that benefits all persons is the sanitation system a city provides. Dumping wastes into the streets and lacking clean water are inevitable pathways to disease. Transportation is another factor. Roads that are uneven and prone to muddying make getting from one destination to another a struggling hassle. After those basic needs are taken care of, city planners can focus on implementing sites that focus on culture, grandeur, and leisure. This would include buildings such as museums, concert halls, or theaters.

"You can't touch your phone at all for two days!" Your mom decides. You might be totally against this! But I agree with her. It is a great idea to have a screen free day. Technology takes away useful time, it causes you to loose sleep, and isolates you from friends, family, and activity.

What is the Planning Fallacy? The planning fallacy falsely estimates how much we can actually accomplish. The fallacy is rooted behind false confidence, and mistakes that sometimes go unacknowledged. Because of that, the person, along with their high self esteem, makes predictions based on false evidence then fails. An individual wants a certain outcome and knows they will get to that end goal, but still manages to refuse reality and forget to take into consideration the larger picture. For example a person who’s moving to a new home might estimate that it will only take a day or two to pack their belongings. In reality it takes a week to a month; he or she predicted it will take less time and energy.

Perhaps the most definitive example of New Urbanism has been DPZ's project, Kentlands, a 352-acre community in Gaithersburg, Maryland begun in 1990. An oasis of good planning in a sea of suburbia, it is not only a model of Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) but also the predecessor to many other such neighborhoods developed within CSD areas. In Kentlands, much like Seaside, the Citizens' Assembly runs a recreation center and provides for common maintenance of public areas. Civic buildings and shopping in mixed-use buildings are within walking distance of the development's six architecturally distinct neighborhoods. This compact design reduces auto traffic significantly, allows children to go about their daily business without requiring a mother chauffeur and puts workplaces near their employees.5

These 8 propositions provide a basis from, which to explore the ramification of public participation, both as a concept and as a decision-making technique. The need of public participation in planning is more clearly expressed by Bolan (1967), “No matter how we improve our substantive knowledge of how cities function, and no matter how we improve our capabilities in information handling, operations research, and prediction, if there is not a corollary development of community’s capacity for improved decision-making within the framework of democratic process, there is the real possibility that heavy investment in the current forms of city planning techniques will have been in vain.”