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Environmental planning

Based on urban planning for vulnerable environmental zones.

Transportation Planning

Designing transport systems for users to use.

Social Planning

Planning social services.

Planning Cycle

A series of steps including analyse, envision, plan, and evaluate.

Rational Planning

Uses data/projections/etc to plan.

Technical skills

Skills including diagnosing, predicting, designing, and evaluating.

Normative skills

Skills including visioning, appreciating, creating, and choosing.

SDM steps

Steps including defining the decision context, clarifying objectives, developing alternatives, estimating consequences, evaluating trade-offs, and deciding.

Design Thinking Steps

Steps including empathising, defining, ideating, prototyping, and deciding.

Benefits of Evidence Based Planning

Using evidence is essential in planning, improving decisions in urban planning.

Types of evidence

Includes scientific knowledge (quantitative measurements) and practical knowledge (qualitative measures).

Analysis methods

Methods including statistical/scientific and qualitative analyses.

Visioning

Working with the community to envision a goal based on strategic planning.

Strategic Planning

Used for general and long-range planning.

Visioning is

A participatory process focusing on a goal with everyone in the community.

Goals and Objectives

Goals are broad ideas for the future; objectives are narrow proposals for one area.

Plan Implementation

The process of properly implementing plans and evaluating them.

Planning Instruments

Tools to assist in planning.

Enforcement

Includes deterrence (not allowing anything by bylaw) and encouragement (allowing and encouraging development).

Evaluation

Involves looking at outcomes, outputs, and performance.

Case studies

Used in Canadian Planning for evaluating and learning from mistakes and successes.

Current Challenges in Planning

Include issues such as politics and sprawl.

Planning theory

Proposes using theories to understand planning processes.

Rationality

Proposes that we are too rational.

Positivism

Attempts to disprove our 'positive' belief.

Learning from practice

Applying what is learnt from planning practice to real life.

Literature reviews

Applying lessons learnt in literature to planning by establishing a precedent.

Precedent studies

Used to set a precedent.

Academic studies

Sets a status quo based on previous studies.