Throughout the western world once the need for urban planning was recognized albeit gradually there had been many stages of improvement in the way Planners approached urban problems. Various time periods saw evolution of different methodologies and strategies in the way planners plan. The paradigms shifted from focusing initially on large plans and city beautiful movements to more neighborhood based community improvement plans today. However, the most important change that had occurred over the period of time in planning thinking should be the way the focus had shifted from physical aspects of a city to community participation and intermittent process involved in making a plan. “Thus since the early 1960s, the plan has not occupied center stage” (Neuman 1998, 208). This Plans performed a secondary role, sometimes even as flexible documents to support the process. In the end the Planning documents saw more of the process in terms of bringing together various groups, citizen participation, identifying the issues, negotiating and mediating and forming the immediate strategies to tackle some of these issues. In the end the comprehensive plans and the strategic plans started dealing less with the physical aspects as the Plan implementation became more and more difficult and irrelevant to keep up pace with the fast change scenarios. So cities like Houston relied on no comprehensive plans but more on the large scale development projects, infrastructure led developments, and initiatives grown from the neighborhoods (Neuman 2003, 25). However it cannot be said there is a fixed way of planning as the process itself is constantly evolving and as more and more ways of theories surface, the debates of “content versus context, rational versus ...
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...as the strategic short initiatives. A comprehensive plan that ignores problems faced is always bound to face a lot of criticism whereas strategic plans that focus on immediate problems cannot take the place of comprehensive plans. There needs to be a balance in managing and incorporating comprehensive plans and strategic plans for immediate goals and future growth bringing in the diverse groups on the same platform especially when it comes to medium to larger cities where there are many pressing problems in wide variety of sectors.
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Background Information In implementing a strategic plan for Coastal Medical Center, our consulting team has conducted many analyses and formed numerous strategies in order for Coastal Medical Center to be successful. Such assessments include an internal analysis, external analysis, gap analysis, and SWOT analysis. In conducting these analyses, our consulting team was able to better understand the internal environment, external environment, where the organization currently stands in terms of performance, and the major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that oppose the Coastal Medical Center. From our inquiry, we will be able to establish a strategic plan that best fits the organization’s needs.
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Webber, M. M. (1973). Comprehensive planning and social responsibility: Toward an AIP consensus on the profession's roles and purposes. Journal of the American Institute of Planning, 232-241.
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Planning is an essential process in today’s organizations. Based on the three types of managers: top-level (strategic managers), middle-level (tactical managers), and frontline (operational managers), exist three corresponding levels of planning: strategic, tactical, and operational. The purpose of this essay is to focus on the strategic level of planning for the Ford Motor Company; a leader in the global automobile industry. Strategic planning, according to Bateman and Snell (2009), “involves making decisions about the organization’s long-term goals and strategies” (p. 137). This paper will elaborate on six key influential factors: economic, environmental, competition, foreign policy, domestic policy, and innovation; that shape this corporation’s strategic plan. Finally, a SWOTT analysis will be conducted covering the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends, that the Ford Motor Company has in relation to its business environment.
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Walk down any street in small town USA and look around, there are empty buildings splatted between empty lots, trash and parking lots. A glance at one of the empty buildings and a sense of people bustling about carrying packages, dressed in early nineteenth century clothing plays out in the mind like on a movie screen. Why is it not being brought back to life? Turning a group of people are standing in front of it with blueprints open and smiles on their faces. A sigh escapes; there is hope for the neighborhood thanks to people with vision and planners who see potential behind the empty windows. In time this areas like this will go from an eye sore to a place where people live, work and enjoy an evening meal. Chen states, “The image of decay, indifference and crime was turned into a sense of roots and a feeling of community pride. (Chen, 2013, pg. 835) Using comprehensive planning and developing a balance between urban planning and historic preservation will add economic and environmental value to our communities.
According Bissett (2008, P.10) regeneration involves building and rebuilding to ‘dissolve and recreate different areas as sites of activity and reuse’. There have been a lot of changes in the history of Ireland’s economy and society as a whole. Bissett, J (2008, p.12) stated that ‘Urban regeneration in Ireland has therefore taken place within the changed context of the developing ‘tiger’ economy, and the modernisation of Irish society’. A large percentage of the Irish population lives in Dublin as it is a capital city. Urban regeneration strategies went through a different ‘reorientation’ in Dublin in the mid1980s by the city trying to transpose itself (Bissett, J 2008, p.11). The inner city had been left suburbanisation and the city had been at a crucial stage for many years. Important policies influenced the development and regeneration of Dublin City Centre. The ‘Myles Wright’ development policy that was adopted in 1960s seems to notice some new towns built on the margin of some area in Dublin, (Bissett, J 2008, p.12). Urban project undertook a thoughtful reorientation, and the Urban Renewal and Finance Act 1986 provided a legislative outline the new ideal of urban regeneration would happen, developers were further organised through the provision of important tax incentives for development. Department of Environment and Department of Finance coordinated ...
For this reason, films that focus on the city expose not the city itself, but its representation and interpretation. Accordingly, the camera, just like a concave or a convex mirror, may form and deform the urban area, images and experience. This shows that film is a phenomenological art; furthermore, the city is full of subjective phenomena. For this reason, thinkers from different academic disciplines contextualise the city. The common point amongst them is the idea that “the city is not the product of planners and architects” (Borden et al., 2000) It can also be accepted as an image, form or representation. There is a formative influence of films on the city.
A contemporary planning practice focuses on important developments and results that will improve the livability of towns and cities in its global context. However, it is unclear what procedure develops a thriving planning practice. Through the analysis of selected topics, it will be made clear that in order to overcome planning goals and to create a successful contemporary planning practice, teamwork is needed. This is supported as “a team has a common goal or purpose where team members can develop effective, mutual relationships to achieve team goals” (Harris & Harris, 1996). To re-iterate that teamwork in planning is important; this essay will outline the importance of teams in planning, the features of effective teams, strategies to overcome conflict and the stages of an effective team. This essay will also link to relevant case studies.
There have been many significant movements throughout urban planning history which have influenced the way that planning theory is shaped and thought. Combined Modernist and Neoliberal planning theories have influenced the erection of a vast amount of planning project that have left an imprint on the way that urban planning is practiced today. In this paper, I will begin by describing the components of modernist and neoliberal planning practices. Then, I will outline a brief history of the project and explain how the Los Angeles South Central Farm was influenced by both modernist and neoliberal planning theories. Lastly, I will analyze this project through two different critical perspectives, neo-Marxism and critical race planning. These critical perspectives will enable us to understand the planning practices that were implemented in this project and will helps us explain the planning theories achievements and failures in this case study.