Flexibility versus Certainty: Unsettling the Land-use Planning Shibboleth in Australia

Wendy Steele and Kristian Ruming

Planning Practice & Research, 2012, vol. 27, issue 2, 155-176

Abstract: Within the planning literature, the distinction between regulatory planning and strategic spatial planning has exposed a recurring dichotomy that exists between the idea of ‘conforming’ (regulative certainty) and ‘performing’ (strategic flexibility) plans and planning systems. This paper critically examines the divergent trajectories of land-use policy and regulation in two Australian states, Queensland and New South Wales. This paper concludes by arguing that the flexibility/certainty dilemma is something of an artifice—a land-use planning shibboleth—that serves to distract professional and scholarly attention away from substantive issues such as how planning might better engender more sustainable urban settlements.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2012.662670

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