CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Porter Airlines
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What is planning: as an activity, not talking about the city and urban aspect, subconsciously. Planning is the deliberate social or org activity -ernest alexander: optimal strategy. Planning is not easy, inter- relationships: complex, many relationships, different domains, and different jurisdiction, people, physical objects, different problems and subject matters. Going back to ernest"s definition: desired outcome is important, do we all agree on what the desired outcome is, hard to decide on one outcome, planner finds himelf in the middle of conflict. Jarvis: was on the news because got rid of the bike lanes. It"s a 5 lane street and the middle lane is either northbound or south depending on the time of day: sign shows either red cross or green arrow to show direction. It was a big decision: controversial, now there are bike lanes on sherbourne, see that planners are caught into these political battles. 3 planning approaches: developer"s approach, private developer.
