ARCH 1065 History and Theory of Planning

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ARCH 1065 History and Theory of Planning

• Week Twelve
• Contemporary Discussions

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Course Mechanics Individual Research Feedback

• Everything received as of last Friday has been
  marked
• Individual research marks count for only a
  portion of the collaborative project grade if
  things did not go well, you can compensate by
  thoughtful contributions during the collaborative
  period
• Major issues
• Citation! Citation! Citation! if I have
  identified any problems with your citations, you
  must correct these during the collaborative
  period
• Focus on academic and policy debates, rather than
  personal opinion or ungrounded generalisations
  (e.g., it may be true that most people think x
  but, for purposes of this assignment, you need to
  ground your assertions with reference to the
  literature)
• Structure the order of paragraphs or sentences
  should be logical
• Minor issues
• Quotations always introduce and conclude
  quotations
• Links and references to further resources are
  very helpful

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Course Mechanics Assessments

• Assessment updates have been prepared for
  everyone, and can be picked up near door
• Summarising
• Theoretical essays to date
• Wiki
• Individual assignment
• Feedback on collaborative contributions to date
  (quantitative grade is not possible for this
  item, as contributions are not complete)
• Participation
• Tutorial presentation (if given)
• Other participation feedback (quantitative grade
  not possible, as contributions not complete)
• If there are mistakes, please let me know.

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Collaboration Current Priorities

• Through 5 June
• Correct any citation issues identified in your
  marked individual assignment
• Consider the feedback you have received on your
  individual essay, when contributing to the
  collaborative process
• Create links and new pages by placing double
  square brackets around words that could be a new
  page title, e.g., Melbourne 2030
• Names of people, places, major pieces of
  legislation, etc.
• Words describing important topics
• Edit and contribute to articles, or create and
  contribute to new ones
• Note Russell has posted all current wiki
  articles to the Index page, organised by theme
  and alphabetically
• Provides an easy guide to current topics, and
• Allows you to publicise new pages you create

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Collaboration Publication

• Option of publishing wiki materials, after course
  has concluded two options
• (1) open the course wiki to the web, after taking
  steps to preserve your anonymity
• Flushing the history to provide anonymity (if you
  wish to post additional content or edit existing
  content after the course ends, you will need to
  create a new account)
• Erasing all of my comments on posts and archiving
  course-related materials
• Deleting current user accounts (you will be able
  to create new ones, to post or edit after the
  course ends)
• (2) create a new wiki, to which you can post
  materials developed for this course, as well as
  any other materials you wish to post
• Allows you more control over what you post, and
  how you post (can set your own user name, post
  your content selectively, etc.)
• Requires additional work on your part
• Can cast vote for preferred option, or suggest
  other options, on wiki

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Lecture Overview

• Last week
• Planning Beyond the State Developing New Forms
  of Professional Identity
• This week
• Contemporary Planning Discussions
• Next week
• Roundtable Discussion Planning Theory, Planning
  Practice, Planning Education
• Course Evaluation

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Class Activity

• Readings read and discuss in small groups
• What does the author highlight about the recent
  history of planning?
• What are the major issues that planning confronts
  now?
• What changes should be made to planning practice,
  theory or education?
• Choose a presenter to discuss with class as a
  whole

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Next Week Preview

• Roundtable discussion planning theory, planning
  practice and planning education
• Course Evaluation