Designed for use by academics, students and planning professionals, this text explains the changes that have transformed planning in Australia and reinstates the need for planning based on principles that foreground social inclusion and ecological sustainability.
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The world is not so governed from above that private and social interest always coincide. It is not so managed here below that in practice they coincide. It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest. Nor is it true that self interest - Page 18
is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. - Page 203
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs - Page 158
modernity refers to modes of social life or organisation which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence'. - Page 14
the fact that social practices are constantly examined and reformed in the light of incoming information about those very practices - Page 15
here below that in practice they coincide. It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that - Page 233
In a thoroughly industrialised community, such as the United States, there is little appreciable difference between one person and another; eccentricity is hated, and every man and woman endeavours to be as like his or her neighbours as possible - Page 16
If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society . . . must in a moment crumble into atoms. - Page 203
gradually and continually to correct the distribution of wealth and to prevent concentrations of power detrimental to the fair value of political liberty and fair equality of opportunity'. - Page 19
assumed by the privileged classes that, when the State refrains from intervening in any department of economic or social affairs, what remains as the result of its inaction is liberty. In reality, as far as the mass of mankind - Page 19
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+ By Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low
+ Published 2000 Allen & Unwin
+ 296 pages
+ ISBN 1865082384