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Motivations, expectations and experiences of Australian rural and regional planners
Get PDFDespite playing an extremely important role in shaping communities, the role and contribution of planners is not widely understood or acknowledged. At the same time, there is a shortage of planners in Australia, especially in non-urban areas. Thus, though an online survey of 185 rural and regional planners, this research explores their motivations, expectations and experiences. Most enjoyed and felt confident in their role, explaining that they valued the relaxed family orientated rural lifestyle and the varied nature of the planning work. Although they sometimes felt isolated, the non-urban location provided quicker progression to senior roles, the ability to engage directly with the community and to see the consequences of their decisions. Only half felt their education had prepared them well for their role, citing gaps in terms of computerised modelling, team leadership and conflict resolution skills. Their feedback centred on providing a more practical course, focussing more on regional planning, and encouraging urban and rural experience placements. As the first study to quantifiably explore rural and regional Australian planners perceptions of their role and challenges, the findings illustrate current experiences, key planning challenges, perceived educational gaps and future priorities.Rural and regional planners; expectations; experiences; Australia
American Institute of Planners Distinguished Service Award for Ladislas Segoe, October 16, 1957
No full textSigned by the Institute's executive director and president.Exhibition Section: FourEdelman Note: American Institute of Planners Distinguished Service Award
Automatic Generation of Efficient Domain-Optimized Planners from Generic Parametrized Planners
No full textWhen designing state-of-the-art, domain-independent planning systems, many decisions have to be made with respect to the domain analysis or
compilation performed during preprocessing, the heuristic functions used during search, and other features of the search algorithm. These design decisions can have a large impact on the performance of the resulting planner. By providing
many alternatives for these choices and exposing them as parameters, planning systems can in principle be configured to work well on different domains. However, usually planners are used in default configurations that have been chosen because of their good average performance over a set of benchmark domains, with limited experimentation of the potentially huge range of possible configurations.
In this work, we propose a general framework for automatically configuring a parameterized planner, showing that substantial performance gains can be achieved. We apply the framework to the well-known LPG planner, which has 62 parame-
ters and over 6.5 × 10^17 possible configurations. We demonstrate that by using
this highly parameterized planning system in combination with the off-the-shelf, state-of-the-art automatic algorithm configuration procedure ParamILS, the planner can be specialized obtaining significantly improved performance
Planners in the Future City: Using City Information Modelling to Support Planners as Market Actors
Get PDFRecently, Adams and Tiesdell (2010), Tewdwr-Jones (2012) and Batty (2013) have outlined the importance of information and intelligence in relation to the mediation and management of land, property and urban consumers in the future city. Traditionally, the challenge for urban planners was the generation of meaningful and timely information. Today, the urban planners’ challenge is no longer the timely generation of urban data, rather, it is in relation to how so much information can be exploited and integrated successfully into contemporary spatial planning and governance. The paper investigates this challenge through a commentary on two City Information Modelling (CIM) case studies at Northumbria University, UK. This commentary is grouped around four key themes, Accessibility and availability of data, accuracy and consistency of data, manageability of data and integration of data. It is also designed to provoke discussion in relation to the exploitation and improvement of data modelling and visualisation in the urban planning discipline and to contribute to the literature in related fields. The paper concludes that the production of information, its use and modelling, can empower urban planners as they mediate and contest state-market relations in the city. However, its use should be circumspect as data alone does not guarantee delivery of a sustainable urban future, rather, emphasis and future research should be placed upon interpretation and use of data
Home planners' most popular home designs: 360 of America's favorite houses
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23rd International urban planners' exhibition
No full textSi tratta del Catalogo della 23° Esposizione internazionale curata da: Serbian Town Planners Association, Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia and Belgrade Town Planners Associatio
Experiential and emotional encounters of women planners in Africa
No full textWomen planners in Africa do not constitute a critical mass: their numbers remain negligible and their output unrecognised, while mentors and role models still tend to be male. Women's experiences are undervalued, and their knowledge is often excluded in policy, project planning, and implementation. This article arises not from systematic academic research but from confessional, reflective, pilot research based on personal experience and the experiences reported by 25 women planners between 1999 and 2004. It deliberately seeks to break the monotony of drawing from survey results which are often detached from experiential and emotional encounters. Using anecdotal material from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, it examines the training and professional environment of the 'planners' and discusses the emotions, expectations, and experiences of female planners in everyday encounters
WorldLink: International work experience for young Canadian planners
No full textYoung planners setting out on their professional careers are often looking for an employer willing to accept them with limited work experience. Since 1998, the Canadian Institute of Planners has helped new planning graduates by providing overseas internship placements.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5334/Article012.pdf?sequence=
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