From Beijing to Washington—A Contemplation in the Concept of Municipal Planning

Deindustrialization and rapid population growth in the City of Toronto has resulted in greater employment land conversion pressures being placed on underutilized and vacant Employment Areas (Blais, 2015; Filon 2003). In 2013, City Planning Staff made recommendations to City Council for the preservation or conversion of specific employment land application requests under the City of Toronto’s Municipal Comprehensive Review process (City of Toronto, 2013). This paper will examine five employment land conversion applications in Toronto’s inner suburbs, the Scarborough Urban Growth Centre and within 500 meters of the Mimico GO Station through a content analysis of City Planning Staff’s recommendations along with the property owner’s rationales. It was found that the five sites should be converted to better meet the Provincial and Municipal planning policy requirements that align with Smart Growth’s objectives. The five sites pose minimal land use compatibility conflicts, require increases in population and employment density, and are isolated from larger Employment Areas.

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Parallel Planning Mechanisms as a "Recipe for Disaster"

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad ◽

10.17159/1727-3781/2010/v13i1a2636 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 213

Author(s):

Jeannie Van Wyk

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Land Development ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Planning Law ◽

Municipal Planning ◽

Urban Planning And Development ◽

The Republic

This note offers a critical reflection of the recent landmark decision in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal which lay to rest the negative consequences of employing the DFA procedures of the Development Facilitation Act 67 of 1995 (DFA) alongside those of the provincial Ordinances to establish townships (or to use DFA parlance, “land development areas”). The welcome and timely decision in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal has declared invalid chapters V and VI of the DFA. Moreover, it has formalised planning terminology in South Africa, delineated the boundaries of “municipal planning” and “urban planning and development” as listed in Schedules 4 and 5 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and, in the process, clarified the structure of planning law. This note examines the decision of the SCA and focus on the role it will clearly have in reforming some of the law relating to planning. It considers the facts of the case, uncertainties around terminology, the structure of planning in South Africa, the content of municipal planning, the role of the DFA and the consequences of the declaration of invalidity by the SCA.

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Implementation of the ecosystem services approach in Swedish municipal planning

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ◽

10.1080/1523908x.2017.1396206 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 298-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Per Schubert ◽

Nils G. A. Ekelund ◽

Thomas H. Beery ◽

Christine Wamsler ◽

K. Ingemar Jönsson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Municipal Planning

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The Design and Establishment of 3D Urban Underground Pipeline Plan Aid System

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.475-476.1546 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 475-476 ◽

pp. 1546-1550

Author(s):

Ying Chun Tao ◽

Lian Zhao ◽

Guo Jiang Zheng ◽

Bo Gang Yang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Normal Operation ◽

Underground Pipeline ◽

Planning Commission ◽

Municipal Planning ◽

Pipeline Network ◽

Scene Graph ◽

Underground Pipelines ◽

The City ◽

Modelling Process

Urban underground pipelines are the lifelines of the city. With the acceleration of city modernization, the traditional way to design and manage pipeline plans which relies on 2D diagrams has been difficult to secure the normal operation of the city. In this paper, a standard automatic 3D pipeline modelling process is proposed; a way to manage massive 3D scenes by scene graph is raised; three patterns of 3D integrated visualization are suggested; innovative stereo displays of pipeline analysis results are thought out. Eventually, a 3D urban underground pipeline plan aid system has been developed. At present, the system has been used in Xicheng Bureau of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission, providing valuable decision-making information for urban underground pipeline network planning and management.

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Imperfect Schemes in Planning and Construction of Municipalities

Open House International ◽

10.1108/ohi-01-2018-b0023 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 113-117

Author(s):

Hu Li

Keyword(s):

Detailed Analysis ◽

Present Status ◽

Public Concern ◽

Engineering Project ◽

Central Park ◽

Municipal Planning ◽

The Common ◽

Municipal Engineering ◽

Architectural Planning ◽

Planning And Construction

With the growing development of China's architecture, the problems existing in municipal engineering have become the focus of public concern. Based on this, study on the lack of law in leading bribes based on the bidding of municipal planning and construction and its imperfect scheme was put forward in this paper. First of all, the needs of municipal engineering planning and construction were expounded, and the present status of the research on the theory of municipal engineering was expounded; then the perfection of the common municipal engineering bidding laws was analyzed, and the content of the architectural planning was mainly introduced; taking the municipal engineering project of a city as an example, the detailed analysis of the planning of the railway station, Central Park and the river of the municipal engineering is made to provide reference for the municipal planning and construction.

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