Potential of Planning Institutions

planning institutions and urban

development attempt to shape have long-
term effects and both affect each other.
urban development can and frequently
does trigger institutional change.


Effective planning institutions
are a major means for providing a city the
sustainable capacity to solve critical urban
problems.
they enhance a city's ability to assemble its
own human and financial resources for urban
development and enable individuals to obtain
access to the skills, resources and services
needed to increase their productivity, incomes
and well-being.
The degree of effectiveness of policies started by
planning institutions is likely to depend on issues such
as how institutions can organize their policy
formulation and implementation activities to cope with
the growing complexity, uncertainty, and change of
urban development problems

the institutional arrangements are fixed, and the
challenge is to select a strategy for planning and
communication that is matched to urban conditions
and community capabilities.

The planner must be aware of how the performance of
her plans and designs will be affected by the existing
institutions. She should recognize the opportunities for
new institutions that can occur in creating new
environments.

The ideal institutional has some general
characteristics:

Cyclical
with analysis, design, prediction, and decision done side by
side, it defines and redefines the problem clearly
it uses the internal and external process as an occasion for
learning
it engage designing into the much broader network of
social decision of which it is a part
it opens up the design process to the values and control of
the actual user and it considers each output as a single
event in a long historical chain

Idoneity
- An idoneous planning institution must have the
ability to learn from and adapt to the environment in
which it works. This requires:

understanding the environment in which it works
recognizing the objectives and intentions of those
its serves and of its institutional colleagues
defining ways of adapting and reconciling its
environment and objectives with proposed
development goals