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Green Cities? Growing Cities?
Just Cities?
Urban Planning and
the Contradictions of Sustainable Development
protecting the green city ?
promoting the economically growing city?
advocating social justice?
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Planner's Triangle
Three Priorities Three Conflicts
Equity
Environment
Economy
The property
conflict
The development conflict
The resourceconflict
Social JusticeEconomic
OpportunityIncome Equality
Environmental
Protection
Overall EconomicGrowth
and Efficiency
Perspective 1
production consumption
distributioninnovation
Social JusticeEconomic
OpportunityIncome Equality
Environmental
Protection
Overall Economic
Growth and Efficiency
Perspective 2
consumer of resources a producer of wastes
Social JusticeEconomic
OpportunityIncome Equality
Environmental
Protection
Overall Economic
Growth and Efficiency
Perspective 3
DISTRIBUTION of resources services opportunities
Social Justice
EconomicGrowth
Triangle axis 1:The property conflict
arises from: competing claims on
& uses of property
Tension is between :private sector
& social intervention
Triangle axis 1:The property conflict
private interest
the public good
Environmental Protection
Econom
icGrowth
Triangle axis 2: The resource conflict
arises from:exploitation of
nature &
conserve resources for present and future demandsTension is between :
economic utility in industrial society
& ecological utility
in the natural environment
ecological utility in the natural environment
economic utility in industrial society
VS
Triangle axis 2:The property conflict
developed city
undeveloped wilderness
Social
Justice
Environmental Protection
Triangle axis 3: The development conflict
arises from:social equity
& environmental preservation
Tension is between :
Inequitable development &
protect the environment
How to increase social equity
and protect the environment simultaneously, whether in a steady-state economy or not ?
Triangle axis 3: The development conflict
How could those at the bottom of society
find greater economic opportunity if environmental protection
mandates diminished economic growth?
haves
have-nots
Equity
Environment
Economy
The property
conflict
The development conflict
The resourceconflict
Green, Profitable and Fair(Sustainable Development)
The Path Towards Sustainable Development
How are you going to get there?
What are the negative consequences?
The Task Ahead for Planners:
Seeking Sustainable Development within the Triangle of Planning Conflicts
Equity
Environment
Economy
Green, Profitable and Fair(Sustainable Development)
• understand opponent's interests and values
• express fundamental conflicts of interest
• !imbalance of power
Procedural Paths : Conflict Negotiation
Procedural Paths: Redefine the Language of
Conflict
• Assisting to understand others priorities and reasoning
• !One language will dominate the debate
• Conceptual level– Words to be understandable by others
• Empirical level– data collection– Integrate different analysis scales
Procedural Paths: Redefine the Language of
Conflict
Social word
Environmental
languageEconomic
vocabulary
Other Procedural Paths
• Political pluralism• Develop market mechanisms
Merging the Substantive and Procedural
• Combining strategies• Caution!– Not In My Back Yard– "My side will win, so why compromise?“– "I don't care"
Planners: Leaders or Followers?
• TAKE THE LEAD in resolving such conflicts• IF NOT, must exploit those areas of conflict
where they have the greatest leverage and expertise
• seeking to resolve both environmental and economic equity issues at once
• “Planners will have to decide whether they want to remain outside the conflict and act as MEDIATORS, or jump into the fray and PROMOTE their OWN visions of ecological-economic development, sustainable or otherwise. “
• Both planning behaviors are needed.
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