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Local government in Australia is critically positioned to provide built environment initiatives that respond to the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD), climate change, and various other human and ecological health considerations. However, action on the ground has not been as widespread as might be expected, particularly in improving community health. This research explores the barriers to and enablers of the implementation of healthy planning and active living initiatives through in-depth interviews with healthy planning and active living advocates. Advocates are seen to promote healthy planning in relatively weak policy settings, where politicised, largely reactive decisions by individual politicians or practitioners are the main determinants of project success. The most important factor affecting project uptake and implementation is how the ‘problem’ of healthy planning, or what might be considered a healthy planning paradigm, is presented. Such a paradigm includes a strong reliance on the co-benefits of projects; it is also subject to the way that healthy planning is communicated and framed. Potential problems around such a setting are subsequently examined, identifying the potential reasons for the slow delivery of healthy planning.
Anthony McCosker; Anne Matan; Dora Marinova. Policies, Politics, and Paradigms: Healthy Planning in Australian Local Government. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1008 .
AMA StyleAnthony McCosker, Anne Matan, Dora Marinova. Policies, Politics, and Paradigms: Healthy Planning in Australian Local Government. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (4):1008.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnthony McCosker; Anne Matan; Dora Marinova. 2018. "Policies, Politics, and Paradigms: Healthy Planning in Australian Local Government." Sustainability 10, no. 4: 1008.
Factors including internal local government functioning, collaboration and the use of co-benefits have been noted to assist in the uptake of healthy planning policies and projects by local governments. However, less commonly noted is a possible reverse relationship: that implementation of healthy planning projects can contribute positively to organisational functioning and collaboration, and can result in a range of co-benefits that then can be used to support projects. Such a concept is explored in this paper, with a focus at the local government level in Australia. Findings from surveys with local government practitioners and in-depth interviews with healthy planning and community health advocates are presented. The findings indicate four key areas through which the implementation of healthy planning policies and projects and active living initiatives demonstrates a ‘virtuous cycle’. These areas include (1) project ‘wind-up’, or circumstances in which implementation and/or health outcomes exceed initial expectations; (2) improved partnerships that can create opportunities for future initiatives; (3) improved internal organisational functioning; and (4) greater project sustainability. The paper concludes by exploring some possible repercussions of these emerging findings, which indicate that beneficial settings to healthy planning considerations can be a result of as well as a contributor to healthy planning and active living initiative implementation. In turn, this presents another potential co-benefit of project uptake and implementation to those commonly identified.
Anthony McCosker; Anne Matan; Dora Marinova. Implementing Healthy Planning and Active Living Initiatives: A Virtuous Cycle. Urban Science 2018, 2, 30 .
AMA StyleAnthony McCosker, Anne Matan, Dora Marinova. Implementing Healthy Planning and Active Living Initiatives: A Virtuous Cycle. Urban Science. 2018; 2 (2):30.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnthony McCosker; Anne Matan; Dora Marinova. 2018. "Implementing Healthy Planning and Active Living Initiatives: A Virtuous Cycle." Urban Science 2, no. 2: 30.
The content of main strategy maps of ten worldwide metropolitan strategies is analysed to identify similarities and differences leading to a classification of the strategies. Their structure is compared via traditional cartographic elements of point, line and area, and ‘relational’ elements such as mesh, attraction and territorial dynamics. The type of each map is then compared via the level of abstraction of map content. Type and structure are jointly considered to assess the ‘relationality’ in each map. Planning context of the Vancouver, South East Queensland and London strategies are analysed to identify reasons for differences in map structure and type.
Anthony McCosker; Glen Searle. Toward a classification of world metropolitan spatial strategies: a comparative analysis of ten plans. Town Planning Review 2016, 87, 655 -680.
AMA StyleAnthony McCosker, Glen Searle. Toward a classification of world metropolitan spatial strategies: a comparative analysis of ten plans. Town Planning Review. 2016; 87 (6):655-680.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnthony McCosker; Glen Searle. 2016. "Toward a classification of world metropolitan spatial strategies: a comparative analysis of ten plans." Town Planning Review 87, no. 6: 655-680.