Instruments of Planning

Rebecca Leshinsky is a Senior Lecturer in Property, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and the author of a number of practitioner books in the areas of property and strata law.Crystal Legacy is an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. She is co-editor of Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s safety and the right to the city (Routledge).

"Leshinsky and Legacy present a timely collection of state‐of‐the‐art chapters on current problems and creative solutions regarding spatial planning, law, and property rights. This book explores the pertinent question of who owns, who plans, and who has the power to facilitate change." - Ben Davy, TU Dortmund University"This book presents a collection of case studies and synthetic analyses speaking to the challenges confronting urban centers in light of the global push for neoliberal policies that privilege markets, competitiveness, and individual advancement, sometimes at the expense of individual equity and community welfare. It provides an important and timely check on how well conventional planning systems are positioned--or not--to address these larger forces, along with insights on how to reform those planning systems to better address challenges ahead." - Richard K. Norton, University of Michigan

• 1. Planning instruments and the urban change process Part 1. Planning challenges in a context of discontinuous growth 2. Towards equitable intensification: Restricting developer gain and compensating planning costs 3. Freedom’s prospect? Re-thinking red and green tape reform as a planning instrument 4. The problem/solution nexus and its effects on public consultation Part 2. Designing strategies for change 5. Community deliberation as a procedural planning tool: Examination of Vancouver and Melbourne 6. Targets for affordable housing: Supporting equitable and sustainable urban growth 7. Social impact assessment: Strategic litigation tool for planning law decision makers 8. A design-led approach for enabling collective imagining of sustainable urban futures Part 3. Instruments to implement change 9. Would you like a code with that? Place-based planning and mapping neighbourhood fields of care 10. Transferable development credits put growth in its place 11. Managing urban intensification through conservation covenants 12. Regenerating cities: Creating the opportunity for greyfield precinct infill development Part 4. Technology in planning: Supporting urban policy and decision-making 13. Policy and planning on the interface of socio-technical systems: Novel approaches to policy development 14. Engaging the greyfields: Community engagement and co-design in residential redevelopment of public housing 15. Technology in urban planning: Spatial hedonic house price model as an information tool 16. Instruments of planning: tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities