Governance: How to Achieve Urban Growth Management in Practice, a Practitioner perspective

Abstract

Auckland, like the majority of Australasian cities, has developed and is seeking to implement a range of urban growth policy responses designed to address the problems created by urban sprawl and encourage better designed, transport oriented urban developments, which will improve the quality of their city’s built environment. To date the implementation of these approaches in Auckland has been problematic. This paper examines the governance arrangements used by a range of pacific rim new world cities, including Auckland, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and Melbourne to examine how they have addressed these issues from an urban planning practitioner perspective. This paper (jointly authored by Errol Haarhoff) presents interim results, drawing upon the experiences of 40 senior urban planning professionals and examines the policy and implementation approaches used and considers how they determine whether their policy approaches have achieved their desired policy outcomes in practice.