1. Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia.
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Steele, Wendy and Ruming, KristianJ.
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ADAPTABILITY (Personality) , *LAND use , *GOVERNMENT policy , *CERTAINTY , *HUMAN settlements - Abstract
Within the planning literature, the distinction between regulatory planning and strategic spatial planning has exposed a recurring dichotomy that exists between the idea of ‘conforming’ (regulative certainty) and ‘performing’ (strategic flexibility) plans and planning systems. This paper critically examines the divergent trajectories of land-use policy and regulation in two Australian states, Queensland and New South Wales. This paper concludes by arguing that the flexibility/certainty dilemma is something of an artifice—a land-use planning shibboleth—that serves to distract professional and scholarly attention away from substantive issues such as how planning might better engender more sustainable urban settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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