Impact of a Fragmented Regulatory Environment on Sustainable Urban Development Design Management
The building project development approval process is increasingly complex and fraught with conflict due to the rise of the sustainable urban development movement and inclusive decision making. Coupled with this, government decision-making decentralization has resulted in a fragmented and over-regula...
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oai:revistas.usp.br:article-509622020-07-05T18:36:08Z Impact of a Fragmented Regulatory Environment on Sustainable Urban Development Design Management London, Kerry Anne Cadman, Katie The building project development approval process is increasingly complex and fraught with conflict due to the rise of the sustainable urban development movement and inclusive decision making. Coupled with this, government decision-making decentralization has resulted in a fragmented and over-regulated compliance system. Problems arising from the process include wasted resources, excessive time delays, increased holding and litigation costs, inadequate planning coordination, high levels of advocacy costs and a divisive politicized approval process. In Australia, despite attempts by government and industry associations, numerous problems are still unresolved. Design managers increasingly assume a liaison role during the approval phase. There is a long tradition of planning theory literature which provides context for understanding the knowledge-power-participation relationship for this paper. This study investigated the policy, process and practice conflicts during the approval stage in achieving sustainable urban developments. Three regional local government areas within one state jurisdiction and observations from detailed structured focus group interviews involving 23 stakeholders, proposers and assessors were analysed to explore this conflictual environment. As a result of regulatory fragmentation and excessive consultation, various persuasion tactics have been developed by all stakeholders of which `reciprocity' and `authority' were identified as the most common. Two challenges for design managers were thus identified: first, the emergence of the role of a by default central informal arbitrator across conflicting planning instruments; and, second, as a navigator through a set of persuasion tactics. An inclusive knowledge-based design management framework for sustainable urban development is proposed considering Habermas' communicative planning theory, Foucaltian governance and discursive powers thesis and Cialdini's persuasion theory, as well as being grounded in the key empirical results from this study, using various types and sources of knowledge as an authoritative persuasion tactic. Published in the Journal AEDM Volume 5, Numbers 1-2, 2009 , pp. 5-23(19) Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo 2009-12-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Resumo solicitado https://www.revistas.usp.br/gestaodeprojetos/article/view/50962 10.4237/gtp.v4i2.133 Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos; v. 4 n. 2 (2009): Tecnologia da Informação e o projeto do edifício e da cidade; p.139-139 Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Design Management and Technology); Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009): Information Technology and design of the building and city; p.139-139 Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Gestión y tecnología de proyectos); Vol. 4 Núm. 2 (2009): Tecnología de la Información y el diseño del edificio y la ciudad; p.139-139 1981-1543 Copyright (c) 2015 Kerry Anne London, Katie Cadman |
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The building project development approval process is increasingly complex and fraught with conflict due to the rise of the sustainable urban development movement and inclusive decision making. Coupled with this, government decision-making decentralization has resulted in a fragmented and over-regulated compliance system. Problems arising from the process include wasted resources, excessive time delays, increased holding and litigation costs, inadequate planning coordination, high levels of advocacy costs and a divisive politicized approval process. In Australia, despite attempts by government and industry associations, numerous problems are still unresolved. Design managers increasingly assume a liaison role during the approval phase. There is a long tradition of planning theory literature which provides context for understanding the knowledge-power-participation relationship for this paper. This study investigated the policy, process and practice conflicts during the approval stage in achieving sustainable urban developments. Three regional local government areas within one state jurisdiction and observations from detailed structured focus group interviews involving 23 stakeholders, proposers and assessors were analysed to explore this conflictual environment. As a result of regulatory fragmentation and excessive consultation, various persuasion tactics have been developed by all stakeholders of which `reciprocity' and `authority' were identified as the most common. Two challenges for design managers were thus identified: first, the emergence of the role of a by default central informal arbitrator across conflicting planning instruments; and, second, as a navigator through a set of persuasion tactics. An inclusive knowledge-based design management framework for sustainable urban development is proposed considering Habermas' communicative planning theory, Foucaltian governance and discursive powers thesis and Cialdini's persuasion theory, as well as being grounded in the key empirical results from this study, using various types and sources of knowledge as an authoritative persuasion tactic.
Published in the Journal AEDM
Volume 5, Numbers 1-2, 2009 , pp. 5-23(19) |
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