Informal settlement issues in spatial development, planning and
governance
Re-engineering mega cities
Strategy for Environmental Sustainable Development
Inter-relationship with commission 9.
Mission statement
The activities of Commission 8 in the years 2007-2010 will involve all
levels of physical planning, which enable environmentally sustainable
development to occur.
Physical planning establishes the ‘ground rules’ for environmentally
sustainable development at all planning levels and including all actors (government,
private sector and public/private partnership). Traditionally the surveyors’
role is most visible in implementation of plans and therefore Commission 8
will have more focus on issues that are closely related to the core
disciplines of the profession.
The Commission 8 will assist in building the capacity of knowledge via
case studies, workshops, collaboration and consultation thus contributing in
a positive way to environmentally sustainable development and living
conditions of humans in a changing globalised world.
General
Surveyors have a key professional role in the application and implementation
of planning and development for community living. The strategy today
incorporates the importance of the environment and the requirement for
environmentally sustainable developments (ESD) to be a foundation of the habitat
for the future generations. This planning strategy for urban development and
regeneration provides opportunities for surveyors.
The re-engineering of mega cities as a place for people and the provision and
location of infrastructure services involves all levels of government and
private sector to provide and deliver outcomes.
The rising sea levels via climate change are particularly challenging for
urban planning in coastal regions. Surveyors can contribute to better
understanding the potential impact on coastal settlements development and to the
adoption of policies to meet these new challenges.
Informal settlements can benefit from contribution by surveyors in the area
of planning and governance.
In the period of 2007-2010 the focus of Commission 8 will be:
Establish a focus for all parties involved in environmentally
sustainable planning and implementation;
Develop guidelines, methods, governances and best practice at the global
level;
This Commission will reflect the holistic skills found within planning
and development of built environment;
Commission emphasises that we, as surveyors and built environment
experts have a leadership role in the collective responsibility for
well-functioning mega cities;
The Commission recognises the three pillars of ESD. i.e. balancing the
competing development demands associated with economic, social and
environmental aspirations. Further, the integrating activities of FIG allow
for adoption of a holistic approach to problem solving in the built
environment;
Focussing on surveyors’ role in implementation of plans and the
interaction between planning and real estate economics.
In addition to the specific activities above, the Commission will support and
contribute to FIG Task Forces and the Standards Network. The Commission will
also respond to the FIG Council to address new issues as they emerge.
Working Group 8.1 - Planning Strategy for Urban Development and
Regeneration
Policy Issues
Planning urban development and regeneration and economic impacts
The role of Partnerships and Urbanization process is a role for
surveyors in moving towards sustainability in urban development/community
living for people and places.
Chair
Dr. Lillian S.C. PUN, Associate Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
HONG KONG SAR, CHINA
E-mail: lspun[at]polyu.edu.hk
Specific Projects
Identify a planning framework, which enables public-private partnership (PPP)
to deliver tools for urbanization
Investigate key roles for surveyors within urban regeneration
Review the Hong Kong policy frameworks for recommendations of best
practice and education requirements for implementation.
This will be a joint Working Group with Commission 7.
Workshops
Develop a series of special papers for the FIG Working Weeks
To organise a round table discussion at Working Week 2008.
Publications
Report on results at the FIG Congress 2010.
Timetable
2008: Round table discussion at the Working Week 2008 in Stockholm
2010: Final report and recommendations
Beneficiaries
FIG member organisations, UN, professional bodies, planners and
developers.
Working Group 8.2 - Informal Settlements Issues in Spatial
Development, Planning and Governance
Policy Issues
Commission’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals
to investigate initiatives that deliver land for housing and associated
financial mechanisms that enable upgrading through participatory approaches
to planning and development.
Provisional Terms of Reference
Build negotiation mechanisms with Traditional Leaders to enable the
expansion of urban areas onto customary owned land by identify ways in which
Customary ownership could be modernized to release land for formalised
housing, (In collaboration with Commission 7).
Explore rapid, new approaches to forward plan and upgrading initiatives
that provide places for the poor by partnering with Sister organisations.
Deliver environmental sustainable house plots by working with
partnership forums to find ways to upgrade infrastructure achieving this by
addressing both physical and financial mechanisms.
Chair
Dr. Diane Dumashie
United Kingdom
E-mail: atfchair_p[at]ymail.com
Specific Projects
To investigate sustainable places within informal settlement in Africa;
To contribute to building the knowledge which the surveyors can provide
expert advice for Built Environment;
To develop FIG-UN recommendation for best practices in Governance issues
for Informal Settlements.
Workshops
To participate in special workshop in Africa
To provide leadership at the FIG Working Week 2008 in this key issue.
Publications
To produce a working discussion paper ‘White Paper’ on a key element
effective governance issue.
Timetable
2008: To organise a round table session at FIG Working Week 2008
2010: Final report and recommendation for Significant Better Practice.
Beneficiaries
United Nations, the World Bank, governments, humanity and FIG member
organisations.
To provide opportunities for surveyors to play a key role in solving
problems and implementing infrastructure in environmentally sustainable
projects/ developments in mega cities (large sprawling habitats with two
distinct types being economically wealthy and dramatically poor).
Chair
Dr. Ioana Manaolache
Romania
E-mail: ioanam[at]theotop.ro
Specific Projects
To study the World City Report for identifying opportunities for surveyors
to be contributors towards improving infrastructure and degradation of the
environment;
To create methods of identifying causes of infrastructure damage within
mega cities;
Identify the planning framework and recommend changes which will enable
implementation of E.S.D.;
Develop a policy framework to enable sustainable cities.
Workshops
To contribute to the proposed Commission 8 workshop on mega cities at the
FIG Working Week 2008.
Publications
Report on results of working group investigations and report at the FIG
Congress 2010.
Beneficiaries
FIG member organisations, United Nations and the World Bank.
Urban planning in coastal regions has emerged as a major issue connected
to rising sea levels as a result of climate change due to global warming.
Urban habitat issues within coastal regions are a matter for Commission 8
and its contribution to environmentally sustainable development.
On matters relating to marine space, Commission 8 will work in close
co-operation with the Commission 4 Working Group 4.3 (Administering Marine
Spaces). The ‘shifting sands’ will provide opportunities for Working Group
8.4 to find key roles for surveyors.
Chair
Mr. Isaac Boateng
University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
e-mail: boatengis[at]yahoo.co.uk
Specific Projects
To identify the impact on Urban habitat in Coast Regions caused by rising
sea levels
To develop planning policy and implementation guidelines to assist or
allow communities to live in harmony with rising sea levels
Workshops
To organise a round table discussion together with Commission 4 at the
Regional Conference in 2007 and at the Working Week 2008/2009.
Publications
Produce a discussion ‘white paper’ in 2009 on the directions and
implications of rising sea levels on coastal communities.
Timetable
2007/2008: Round table discussions at the FIG events together with
Commission 4
2009: White paper on direction and implication of rising water.
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 8.1 - Planning Strategy for Urban Development and
Regeneration
Dr. Lillian S.C. PUN, Associate Professor
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hunghom
Kowloon
HONG KONG SAR, CHINA
E-mail: lspun[at]polyu.edu.hk
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 8.2 -
Informal Settlements Issues in Spatial Development, Planning and Governance
