Global Planners Network Networking Event Spatial Planning and the Right to the City

1. Global Planners Network Networking Event Spatial Planning and the Right to the City An RTPI Perspective

2. RTPI: International Focus • Founded in 1914 • 1000+ members live & work in 90 countries • Network with planners worldwide • Certify planning schools • Major contribution to urban research

3. New Vision for Planning 6 core themes: • Spatial: all places have unique needs & characteristics • Integrative: in terms of knowledge, objectives, sectors and actions • Sustainable: looks at the short, medium and long term issues • Inclusive:recognises the wide range of people involved • Value-driven: concerned with identifying, understanding and mediating conflicting sets of values • Action-oriented: concerned with outcomes.

4. 2009 International Strategic Review • FOCUS concentrate on the things we are good at, which are: • Advocacy, • Building capacity and • Communicating and networking. • MISSION to promote spatial planning internationally & develop its capacity to secure territorial cohesion and sustainable human settlements in all parts of the world.

5. Operates at all scales: National, regional, cities, towns, villages and neighbourhoods. New Vision for Planning

6. PLANNING SUSTAINABLE CITIESGLOBAL REPORT ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 2009 The Global Report argues that future urban planning must take place within an understanding of the factors shaping 21st-century cities including: • Environmental • Demographic • Economic • Spatial Inequality • Urban Sprawl • Democratisation and the rights of ordinary people

7. Successful spatial planning is inclusive... Spatial planning must: • Respect difference, • Include all in the process of change; • Reduce social and spatial inequalities. Not create new ones; • Negotiated through processes that are • transparent, and • subject to scrutiny and arbitration; • Result in a shared commitment to act.

8. GPN Self Diagnostic Tool • Self-diagnostic – respondents position themselves rather than measure against external norms • Assess planning capacity to respond to challenges • Identify priorities • Evidence base for world wide planning capacity • Identify gaps – geographically and functionally • Helps consider resource priorities • 1500 responses from 100+ countries

9. Q2: ‘In your country what are the main challenges that require planning skills?’ • Open ended question • This was their first key thoughts • 61 % of all respondents identified issues of Poverty & Inequality • Poverty & Inequality are big issues for planners

10. How can planning make a difference? Respondents identify four core priorities: • Balanced Settlements • Improving Quality of Life • Harmonious Environment • Stakeholder Engagement

11. Balanced Settlements for addressing poverty and inequality “preventing spatially institutionalised poverty and inequality” • Utilising space to encourage - local employment opportunities - service opportunities - viable transport & mobility - affordable housing - capital investment to poorer areas • Equitable distribution of - resources - burdens - benefits

12. Engagement & Inclusionfor addressing poverty and inequality • decision making about land use affects people unequally • planning processes using mediation can offer a structured way to negotiate interests • balance competing, economic, social and environmental objectives in a transparent way

13. Perceived barriers to planning • Respondents think planners should be doing more • Big differences between what planning could do and what it is doing.

14. What holds planning back? • Context • Institutional • Lack of support by Government and wider society • Capacity • Skills • Information • Resources

15. Find Out More Contact the GPN www.globalplannersnetwork.org Contact the RTPI www.rtpi.org.uk/international Self assessment of the capacity for planning http://tinyurl.com/2gbffk