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I believe that our cities, especially the major ones around the world are already to some degree very ‘smart’ with respect to technology applications. Those digital implications aids connection between people and their living environment. However, I still think there is a long way for our planet to have a single so called ‘Smart City’, simply because we are held back by our ability and freedom to achieve the total fusion of technology to make it work for people. This ideal advancement can hardly be possible with all the restrictions and limitations from governments, businesses, resources and countless forces coming from humans ourselve.

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What are three key strategic planning issues that impact you and why?

Traffic (ironically a new issue for this small city), sanitation and other services, and open community spaces are three primary issues.

The city of Gandhinagar has always been referred to as “the green city of India” but recently to accommodate the needs of the increasing population the city is rapidly losing its green cover. The identity of the city can be saved or restored if these primary components of the city are reimagined (with alternative planning and design interventions).

What do you think strategic planning can do to address the issues you have identified?

I think through strategic planning one can gather or categorize the relevant data, analyze it, Identify existing problems or foresee potential future issues and come up with efficient solutions or interventions to overcome those challenges.

In the case of my city (Gandhinagar, Gujarat), strategic planning can help identify the ecologically/environmentally reach zones and guide the future urban developments in a sustainable way.

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(a)  What is strategic planning?

I am using examples of my city and its sister city in India.

Living in a pre-planned capital city (of Gujarat, India) Gandhinagar, to me strategic planning can be about shaping a new city with a specific vision. This city was intentionally planned (in 1966) as the state capital and an administrative hub for the government, currently home to 4 lakh people. Its aim is reflected in its orthogonal grid-based plan; which is inspired by Chandigarh, a city designed by Le Corbusier.

On the other hand, taking the example of the sister city Ahmedabad, a dense metro-city (over 80 lakh population) evolved radially around a 16th-century Mughal settlement. In this case, strategic planning can be a tool to resolve functional urban issues like congestion, density, lack of connectivity, etc.

Hence strategic planning can be a tool to form new cities with a specific aim or can help to overcome urban issues in organically (over time) formed cities

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Promote the use of public transport and reduce carbon dioxide emissions

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How to increase density well??
Density often equals healthier, more sustainable urban areas but can create significant public backlash and areas that people consider to be lacking culture/community

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Applications of more green architecture such as green walls or passive cooling/heating reduces the operational energy required to create a comfortable living environment

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Promote the use of renewable energy collectively in an area but not for one/ two buildings

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Encouraging walking through the implementations of more direct connections between destinations such as walkways when compared to using vehicles.

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affordability and accessibility to fresh, healthy and affordable food

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Balance of growth/development with retention/protection and appropriate recognition/inclusion of first nations heritage of the land we work/live on

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People's health and well being at the forefront of urban design/planning decision making conversations

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I'm interested in the idea of a connected city where people can easily discover points of interest or knowing whether their bus is full before hand during rush hour and find a different form of transport where in turn improves the overall wellbeing and ease of living in the city.

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Would the increase the biking infrastructure promotes people's health?

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how strategic planning can influence how people use a space and whether it supports their mental health and wellbeing

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IoT technology that makes life easier

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I come from a CALD community who are disengaged with the planning process leaving them to feel left out and disassociate from the wider Australian community despite the city being very multicultural. It would be great for council / governments to engage with the CALD community to give them a sense of belonging and create a place that speaks and functions for them.

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Dominant industries/industrial transformation

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location, capacity and resources for schools

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Demographic changes, rules of regulations and policies may also change

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Affordable housing, public housing, social housing, alternative housing models...

Interested in the redevelopment of public land for private housing... Interested in the difficulty of home ownership for first home buyers...

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One of the key strategic planning issues that impacts me and my work is place based strategy, for example Metropolis of Three Cities, or Western Sydney Parkland City. I work in school infrastructure, and the huge effort of many agencies working to different strategic objectives in a complementary timeline is always an interesting (and challenging one). All elements of place making are important, social infrastructure, utilities etc. I look forward to having additional expertise in this space to be able to critically impact on making it all work for everyone!

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Gentrification and loss of culture.

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For me, urban planning is to improve the living environment.

I am very interested in how urban planning deals with the relationship between people and the environment

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i'm interested in shared use of public domain. territorialism and perceptions of ownership of space, including what is deemed 'appropriate' e.g, young people's use of public space

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How land use planning ease the severity of heat island effect?

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Affordable housing

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Distribution of medical resources

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urban heat island

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traffic jam, I'm living vancouver reight now. beacuse of the population growth more and more cars on the road.  so the traffic jam started. the other reason is each area is too far inside, so we need to drive or use transport.

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Lizzy    what is strategic planning? Use some strategies to effectively plan and organize land&resources in relations to cities development and human-beings welfare.

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Lizzy    what is strategic planning? Use some strategies to effectively plan and organize land&resources in relations to cities development and human-beings welfare.

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long term vision for a place, ensuring equity and fairness and care for what's important. Not straight forward and needs to be flexible and respond to community needs changing over time

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Strategic planning is the planning of something using particular processes in defining clearly the direction and purpose of each decision in order to reach a certain goal. In the case of urban planning it is the direction of development within a city or area though the changes of services and infrastructure.

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strategic planning means coordinating the interests of key stakeholders to shape, and influence the visual, economic, physical use of the land, and predict and prepare for how this land will continued to be used

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Strategic planning is an organizational management activity used to identify priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, agree on expected results, and evaluate and align the organization in the following ways direction in response to changing circumstances.

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Strategic planning refers to systematic strategies that businesses or organisations use and implementing them, and evaluating the results of executing the plan, in regard to a their overall long-term goals or objectives.

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It involves the visioning element of nation-building and how and in what timeframe these overarching visions can be realized. This explores different themes that touch on environment, built form, people, and the connections between the three.

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Arranging buildings, spaces, and activities to improve the liveability, sustainability, and efficiency of cities.

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Strategic planning is the practice of finding and implementing strategies to 'solve' to urban problems - affordable housing, access to green space, increasing population close to community hubs...

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To analyse the actual situation, conduct a development and action plan, and implement the plan.

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Strategic planning focuses on setting high-level goals and determining desired areas of growth for a city or metropolitan area.

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Strategic planning is a process of managing the infrastructure and services within cities and regions, and control the physical space to balance the built and natural environment. I believe urban planning has the greatest connection to our social life, great planning brings us convenience and more benefits. I’m interested in doing planning to help the society develop better.

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Coming from an architecture background, I am becoming increasingly aware that Urban Planning is the field that determines how we understand and build connections to our environment. Urban design not only has the ability to impact health, lifestyles, connections and build community, but it also contributes to our personal identities... I guess I have loved cities with gritty history and heritage and urban planning is what is responsible for maintaining and celebrating these layers.

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Strategic planning is the decision making process and its challenges, considerations and outcomes over land use but with the forefront of understanding what people want

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I am using example of my city and it’s sister city in India.

Living in a pre-planned capital city (of Gujarat, India) Gandhinagar, to me strategic planning can be about a new city with a specific vision. This city was intentionally planned (in 1996) as a state capital and administrative hub for the government, currently home to 4 lakh people. It’s aim is reflected in its orthogonal grid based plan; which is inspired from Chandigarh, a city designed by le Corbusier.

On the other hand taking the example of the sister Ahmedabad, a dense metro city (over 8p lakh population) evolved radially around a 16th CE Mughal settlement. In this case strategic planning can be a tool to resolve functional urban issues like congestion, density etc.

Suhas Chaudhari

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The strategic planning more like giving a direction for a series planning in future. It's like a long term plan for a certain region, ideally.

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Urban planning is for enhancing the functionality, efficiency, and attractiveness of the environment while creating and maintaining the environment in which humans live. My interests lie primarily in the design of the urban environment, especially alleviating the urban environmental issues.

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The process of designing and managing how land is developed/used to create healthy liveable spaces

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to me urban planning is an opportunity to renew the city with new sustainable and efficient ways, and it is also essential to human wellbeing.

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I think urban planning covers many areas and is dedicated to making life better for people in cities.

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Urban is a form of relationship between human and environment. I was fancinated by the power that human can reshape a landscape and envrionment affects human behaviour.

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Urban planning to me is the planning of an urban built-up in order to provide an improved standard of living through the planning of spaces such as landscaping and transportation. I wanted to study urban planning because of the idea of improving a city's wellbeing and function, providing people with more opportunities within the city to live a better life style.

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Urban planning to me is taking the opinions of multiple stakeholders, analysis, and research to influence and change a space.

I wanted to study planning because I was interested in how spaces can be turned into places due to the influence of planners and those who interact with the space

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Strategic planning means to  analyze, predict and influence change in an area

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To create and control physical space.

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Feelings of disillusionment working in residential housing developments and was looking for pathways wherein I could use my skillset but also work in multiple scales and engage a wider demographic.

Urban planning is the negotiation of different, often competing, stakeholders and perspectives to create spaces that are equitable, healthy, and dynamic.

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Urban planning is to increase city's accessibility and permeability, thus enhancing people's life.

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Improve people's feeling about the city they lived

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The process of planning for future use of a space that maximises beauty, economy and practical use for citizens (or whoever the key stakeholders are)

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Urban planning to me is the opportunity to design and create liveable cities across different scales for people.

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Urban planning to me means to improve people's living conditions through the built environment. It's about making amenities, services, jobs etc. more accessible to people in an equitable way. Visiting Indonesia and its crowded city brought me here to study urban planning.

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Improve the livability and enhance the balance between human and the nature.

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Urban planning is the study of the future development of the city, the rational layout of the city and the management of all resources,.

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I was working with urban planners and designers in my role in healthy placemaking and wanted to understanding how we design and manage public space

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A collaborative work of condition analysis and setting regulations in a range of sensible approaches with the intention of nourishing cities and its places

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Improve people's quality of living;)

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What does strategic planning mean to you?

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What does strategic planning mean to you?

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You might want to refer to your reading of 'What is planning' written by Thomspon and Maginn

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First Nation and Indigenous Consideration

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First Nation and Indigenous Consideration

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This might be community information, engagement and consultation that are included or missed in the planning process

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What strategic planning issues we might have missed?

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organized commercial and residential use and land use. make the relationship between nature and human systems

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What is urban planning for you? What brought you to study urban planning?

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What is urban planning for you? What brought you to study urban planning?

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It might be:
- caring about city liveability and urban dwellers' wellbeing?
- being inspired by a book, a movie or etc.?
- concerning a city issue?
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Discussion 2 - Tell us one strategic planning issue that impacts or interests you the most and why?

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Discussion 2 - Tell us one strategic planning issue that impacts or interests you the most and why?

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Any issues you can think of that are related to the topics on the right? Please like the ones that interest or impact you. Please also leave your comment under it and tell us how you relate to it.

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Discussion 1 - We want to get to know you! 

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Discussion 1 - We want to get to know you! 

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Please have a think about the questions on the right and add in your ideas. We would like you to get to know about each other.