Daniel's Planning Blog: Hello

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Hello

Once again, I’ll be adding to my blog to share what I’ve been learning from my weekly classes and readings. This semester I’ll be studying a unit called Planning Theory and Process 2.

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Interesting links

A guide to GIS: http://www.gis.com/content/what-gis

Public transport in Paris: http://paris.conciergerie.com/travel_paris/paris_public_transportation.php

Phnom Pehn traffic survival guide: http://www.urbanlowdown.com/destinations/cambodia/phnom-penh/147.html

Batemans Bay - Eurobodalla 2030 plan: http://www.eurobodalla2030.com.au/

Molonglo Valley Development: http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/topics/significant_projects/planning_studies/molonglo_valley_stage_2_planning_project

Melbourne Docklands: http://www.docklands.com

Victorias Planning Schemes: http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/

Melbourne City Planning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnynzD0yDI

Belconnen Town Centre improvements: http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/topics/significant_projects/infrastructure_works/belconnen_town_centre

Queanbeyan City Council: http://www.qcc.nsw.gov.au/

Famous Planning Quotes

The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore - Will Rogers

An idea is salvation by imagination - Frank Lloyd Wright

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done - Buddha

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true - Lester Robert Bittel

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change - Charles Darwin

If you can dream it, you can do it - Walt Disney

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work - Peter Drucker

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet (1803-1882)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint Exupery, poet and pilot (1900-1944)

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing - Thomas Huxley

The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Immanuel Kant

Good judgment is the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment - Robert Lovett, wall street banker , advising attorney general Robert F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969).

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children - Margaret Mead

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect