Planning
Setting our a strategy in order to facilitate something happening or changing.
Spatial Planning
Planning the city.
Design
A discipline that combines problem-solving with material appropriation.
Urban Design
Designing the city.
Consultation
A dialogue with citizens that needs radical reform to make it a two-way process.
Democracy
A thoroughly accountable system of leadership controlled by grass-roots organization.
Need
The requirements of a city that often catalyse planned change, and yet the beneficial, relieving results of that change are often slow or the last to manifest.
Ownership
The condition that reveals the governance of property.
Delivery
It is the last phase of the plan that straddles the planning phase with the actual change. It is when the money is spent and the plan becomes manifest.
Economy
The financial systems that contiribute to and indicate the viability of a plan.
Governance
A system of control that determines the legal, physical and social conditions of space.
I like your definitions- they're concise. Do you really believe planning is as propositional as you've suggested? Surely it's just as much about stopping things as creating them?
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