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PAFS Summer School Brazil
23-27 Jan 2017

Rozanne Spijkerboer
Terry van Dijk

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- People... and Inhabiting the world

- From space-thinking to place-thinking
- The reciprocity of people and place
Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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SPACE:
Concepts - measurable world around us
of
Inter- metric, size, numbers, objective, mechanic
vening

Position PLACE:
of
planning - experienced world around us
attachment, emotion, subjective, relation
What is
sustain-
ability?

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Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
- Why Policy
Inter-
vening
- Design Cycle
Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Black White
Concepts
of
Dark Light
Inter-
vening Left Right

Position Low High

of
planning Policy ?

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People
Freedom is limited by freedom of others
Concepts Coordination issue
of
Inter-
vening Social Choice Dilemmas
'Tragedy of the Commons' requires:
Position
of
planning 'Mutual coercion mutually agreed upon'

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People
Policy
Concepts Police
of
Inter-
vening Politics
Polite
Position
of
planning Poly
Polity
What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People Uncertainty, unpredictability
so 'go with the flow'?
Concepts
of
Inter-
vening Carrots, sticks and blue prints limited

Position
But do continue to seek influence
of
planning We need inspiration to get ahead
Dare to be story tellers
What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People Starts with: desire
Clean Water, Safe Mobility,
International Recognition,
Concepts
of Wealth, Quality of Life
Inter-
vening Needs: designs, inspiration, consensus
Position Then becomes: decision,
of
planning
plan, budget, power

What is
sustain-
>>> Phronesis: what works?
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places Good policy makers...

and
People
...understand why

Concepts
of They can exceed frames
Inter-
vening

Position They never stop exploring solution space

of
planning

They have compared as many planning

What is projects in as many different contexts as
sustain-
ability? possible

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Places
and
People
Planning

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of Architecture/ Engineering
planning
urbanism

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places Spatial Planning

and
People
(=place policy production) is:

Concepts
of
Inter-
Search for
vening
and accomplishment of
Position
of the best thinkable
planning
mutual adjustment of

What is society and space

sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?
Van Dijk, T. and Van der Vlist, A. (2014) Landownership and plans: when regional designs unleash
private and public land acquisition.
Urban Studies DOI: 10.1177/0042098014544764

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is - General definitions

sustain-
ability? - Specific meaning for places

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Places
and Sustainable development?
People

First debate: economic growth and the

Concepts
of protection and preservation of our
Inter-
vening
environmental needs are antagonistic

Position
of
Limits to Growth (1972)
planning
A Blueprint for Survival (1972)

What is
sustain-
ability?
We cannot sustain our current way of life

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Places
and Sustainable development?
People

Limits to Growth
Concepts
of
Inter-
If the present growth trends in world population,
vening industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource
depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on
Position
of
this planet will be reached sometime within the next one
planning hundred years. (Meadows et al. 1972: 234)

The most probable result will be a rather sudden and

What is
sustain- uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial
ability?
capacity (ibid)

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Places
and Sustainable development?
People

Second debate:
debate: economic growth and
Concepts technological development will help humans to
of
Inter- outsmart ecological crises (economic growth and
vening environmental protection are complementary)
complementary)

Position
of The Doomsday Syndrome (John Maddox,
Maddox, 1972)
planning
The Ultimate Resource (Julian Simon, 1981)
We will figure something out as long as we keep
What is
sustain- innovating!
innovating!
ability?

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Places
and Sustainable development?
People
In the meantime,
meantime, out of the 1972 Stockholm conference,
Concepts also a strong awareness rose that social inequalities and
of
Inter-
severe poverty undermine environmental protection
vening

Position
Poverty is also not-sustainable!
not-sustainable!
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People

Concepts
of
Inter-
vening

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
Sustainable development?
People
Now Here
Concepts
of
vs. vs.
Inter-
vening

in the Future There

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?

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Places
and
People
Solution
space
Concepts
of
Inter-
vening STIMULUS OPTIONS RESPONSE

Position
of
planning

What is
sustain-
ability?