Glossary #2

Here is a list of my revised terms. The original terms are indicated with (a) and the new or revised terms with (b).

Planning
(a) Setting out a strategy in order to facilitate something happening or changing.
(b) Setting out a strategy in order to facilitate something happening or changing.

Spatial Planning
(a) Planning the city.
(b) Planning the city, which is a complex process that necessitates the inclusion of every aspect of the city and knowledge of how they are related.

Design
(a) A discipline that combines problem-solving with material appropriation.
(b) A discipline that combines understanding, balanced consideration, problem-solving with material appropriation.

Urban Design
(a) Designing the city.
(b) Designing the city is a process that brings together an understanding of Spatial Planning and Design and applies them simultaneously to the same space. Often however, Spatial Planning will operate at a larger scale than Design. It will provide the needs to which the design must respond and accommodate. Sometimes, the design process will feedback to the Spatial Plan with proposals or amendments.

Consultation
(a) A dialogue with citizens that needs radical reform to make it a two-way process.
(b) A complicated process of discussion and debate with citizens to ensure a democratic endorsement of an area's Spatial Plan. Most of the time, this is done by writing letters to Council Departments and Officers and making comments online about draft policy documents within the Council's set timeframe. Interested parties are also consulted by LAs. Unless there is a high level of community organisation, interested parties frequently outnumber the voices of local residents.

Democracy
(a) A thoroughly accountable system of leadership controlled by grass-roots organization.
(b) A thoroughly accountable system of leadership controlled by grass-roots organization.

Local Democracy
(b) Local Democracy is a phrase that alludes to consultation and accountability adopted by Local Authorities and Borough Councils. This is mostly done by writing letters to, and lobbying elected Council members, and by holding them to account through political parties.

Need
(a) 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.
(b) The requirements of the city, such as jobs, homes, transport infrastrucutre, health and education services, utilities, power and the environment.

Ownership
(a) The condition that reveals the governance of property.
(b) The relationship governance of property. In the case of land, ownership, governance, market forces and value, all influence how the land is used. Ownership however, is the last link in the chain of deliverability. In order to implement a plan, 'buy-in' must be obtained from the landowner.

Delivery
(a) 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.
(b) Is the process that includes setting a timeframe to implement the proposal, securing the funding to do and actually implementating the change.

Economy
(a) The financial systems that contiribute to and indicate the viability of a plan.
(b) The financial systems that contiribute to and indicate the viability of a plan. This can include global and local economies and markets.

Governance
(a) A system of control that determines the legal, physical and social conditions of space.
(b) A system of control that determines the legal, physical and social conditions of space.