By Dory Reeves
The sensible value of variety and equality for spatial making plans and sustainable improvement remains to be now not broadly understood. utilizing foreign examples, this e-book indicates planners and educationalists some great benefits of development in a attention of variety and equality at every one degree and point of planning.Despite being the most assorted and gender balanced of the outfitted atmosphere professions, complacency has been common in making plans. This ebook indicates why a various occupation is necessary and drawing on a variety of stable perform, indicates how these taken with making plans can improve their sensitivity to and services in variety and equality.
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Through continuous learning and development, professionals and those engaged in planning develop their knowledge and expertise. On reflection, I started the research for this chapter with the belief that if policy can achieve an ideal mix, communities will sustain themselves. However, this is too simplistic and the conclusion I draw at this stage is that the picture is more complex. Difference and diversity are highly contexualized and many people want to feel safe in their own self-defined space.
Environmental economists see the sustainability problem as quite simply ‘managing economic activity to address inequality and poverty in ways which do not undermine the base for future economic activity’ (Common, 1995:31). Within ecological modernization theory, the concept of sustainability is more marketorientated with the environment seen as a stock of assets which can be quantified, priced and traded in quasi-monetary terms. The USA Council on Sustainable Development reflects this approach when it says that ‘to achieve sustainable development, some things must grow—jobs, productivity, wages, capital and savings, profits, information, knowledge and education—and others—pollution, waste, poverty— must not’ (Council on Sustainable Development, 1994/1999).
Sustainable development does not have an agreed or universal template, so the very process of planning must provide the necessary forums for defining sustainable development in different communities (TCPA, 1999:11). Planners need to chart paths towards sustainable development which respect and take into account the needs and values of different groups of people. The Seattle city website does just this and the stories which make up the site provide examples of the small steps Seattleites are trying to make the city a more sustainable place (City of Seattle, 2002).