Spatial planning, infrastructure and implementation: implications for planning school curricula

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2012
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Klein, Garth
Klug, Neil
Todes, Alison
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State
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English: Infrastructure plays key roles in shaping the spatial form of the city at a macro- and a more local scale, and it influences the sustainability, efficiency and inclusiveness of cities and local areas. Linking infrastructure and spatial planning is therefore critical. Wide-ranging sets of knowledge and skills are required to enable planners to make these links, from technical knowledge of different types of infrastructure delivery systems, institutions and finance, to normative dimensions, such as sustainability, inclusion, liveability, efficiency, and their spatial implications, to socio-political, governance and institutional dimensions, such as the politics of decision-making, community participation, and negotiation. A matrix of knowledge and skills is produced, and the way these fields of study have been taken up in the undergraduate/honours planning programme at the University of the Witwatersrand is explored. The teaching methodologies and approaches which might be used to address these issues are discussed.
Afrikaans: Infrastruktuur speel ’n belangrike rol in die vorming van die stad op ’n makro en meer plaaslike skaal, en dit beïnvloed die volhoubaarheid, effektiwiteit en inklusiwiteit van stede en plaaslike areas. Dit is daarom krities om infrastruktuur en ruimtelike beplanning te koppel. ’n Wye verskeidenheid stelle van kennis en vaardighede word vereis om beplanners in staat te stel om hierdie koppeling, vanaf tegniese kennis oor verskillende tipes infrastruktuurleweringstelsels, instansies en finansies, tot normatiewe dimensies soos byvoorbeeld volhoubaarheid, inklusiwiteit, leefbaarheid, effektiwiteit en hul ruimtelike implikasies, tot sosiopolitieke, regerings- en institusionele dimensies, soos die politiek van besluitneming, gemeenskapsdeelname, en onderhandeling. ’n Matriks van kennis en vaardighede is geproduseer, en die manier waarop hierdie velde van studie in die voorgraadse/honneurs beplanningsprogramme aan die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand opgeneem is, word ontdek. Die onderrigmetodes en -benaderings wat gebruik mag word om hierdie sake aan te spreek, word bespreek.
SeSotho: Marangrang dipalangwane le mebila e etsa mesebetsi ya bohlokwa ho bopa sebopeho sa sebaka sa motse wa ditoropo ka boholo le haholo ka tsa lehae., ebile a susumetsa ho boloka, bokgoni le ho kenyeletswa ha dibaka tsa metse ya ditoropo le tsa lehae. Ka mokgwa o jwalo, ho hokahanya marangrang a mebile le dipalangwang le moralo wa sebaka ke ntho e thata ruri. Ho hlokeha dihlopha tse batsi tsa tsebo le mahlale ho kgontsha baradi ho kgona ho etsa maqhaama ana, ho tswa tsebong e tshophodi ya mefuta e fapaneng ya mekgwa ya ho fana ka ditshebeletso ya marangrang, meaho le tsa ditjhelete maemong a phahameng jwaloka ho boloka, ho kenyeletsa, ho phela, le bokgoni) le mathata a tsona a sebaka, ho tsa kahisano le dipolotiki, ho busa le maemo a meaho, e kang dipolotiki tsa ho etsa diqeto, ho ikakgela ha setjhaba kapa baahi ka setotswana kgabong, le ho buisana. Sebopeho sa ditsela tsa tsebo le mahlale, le kamoo mafapha ana a boithuto a amohetsweng kateng lenanehong la moralo wa mane baithuti ba batjha ba qalang dithuto tsa yunivesithi kapa ba lengolo la honours mane Yunivesithing ya Witwatersrand o a ithutwa. Mekgwa ya ho ruta le dikatamelo eo e ka sebediswang ho sebetsa ditaba tsena e a buisanelwa.
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Spatial planning, Urban planning, School curricula
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Klein, G., Klug, N., & Todes, A. (2013). Spatial planning, infrastructure and implementation: implications for planning school curricula. Town and Regional Planning, 60, 19-30.