FIG Commission 8
- Spatial planning and development
Work Plan 1999-2002
Title
Spatial Planning and Development
Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Brackmann, Chairperson of Commission 8
Terms of Reference
Regional and local structure planning
Urban and rural land use planning
Planning policies and environmental improvement
Urban development and implementation
Public-private partnership
Informal settlements and urbanisation in developing countries
Environmental impact assessments.
Mission Statement
Focus on physical planning at all levels, undertake and learn from case
studies and enhance understanding and knowledge of planning systems. The
importance of sustainable development, environmental issues in planning and
environmental impact assessments (EIA) in spatial planning procedures will be
key issues throughout the plan period.
Continue to co-operate with countries in social and economic transition,
in eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
Assist with the implementation of Agenda 21 (from the Rio Earth Summit)
and the Global Plan of Action (from the HABITAT II conference in Istanbul) at
the local and urban level. Pay particular attention to informal settlements
and urbanisation problems in developing countries.
Focus on implementation problems, especially in inner city areas, and on
public/private partnership and other tools that promote planned and
sustainable land use development.
Inner cities and the regeneration of established urban areas.
Determination of the extent to which methods used to solve a particular
problem might be successfully applied elsewhere.
Chair
Paul Lohmann (Netherlands).
Specific project(s)
Observe different projects over a long time scale in such a way as to
determine whether the methods or instruments used might be successfully
applied to other projects in other countries.
Produce an interim report of findings during the preceding plan period
(1994-1998), drawing on material presented at the FIG congress, 1998.
Consider further findings of case studies already under way in the
Netherlands and Germany.
Extend case studies to Slovakia, Norway and Finland and, if possible, to
venues outside Europe - for example, in Australia and the Far
East.
Workshop(s)
"Urban regeneration", 22 - 25 September 1999, Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
Publication(s)
Workshop reports (by the commission), as hard copy and on the
commission home page.
Interesting case studies (possibly).
Timetable
Reports of workshops: 1999 and 2000.
Case studies: at the end of the project.
Working group final report to FIG congress, 2002.
Beneficiaries
FIG member associations, governments, international agencies, individual
surveyors and others working on urban regeneration
problems.
Global urbanisation problems and processes and the special problems of
mega cities including informal settlements.
Chair
To be advised.
Specific project(s)
Collect ideas and build up a network for the exchange of experiences and
sustainable models, working closely with the other FIG commissions, the FIG
task force on sustainable develoment and UNCHS.
Participate in the URBAN 2000 congress, Berlin.
Workshop(s)
At FIG working weeks, 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Publication(s)
Workshop reports (by the commission), as hard copy and on the
commission home page.
Working group report and statement.
Timetable
Reports of workshops: 1999, 2000, 2001.
Working group final report and statement, FIG congress,
2002.
Beneficiaries
FIG member associations, governments, international agencies, individual
surveyors and others involved in the problems of urbanisation.
Other activities
Maintain and develop the commission home page, linkages to other relevant
home pages and new pages or other networks for special projects, to keep
commission delegates, other FIG members, users of surveying services and the
public involved in and informed about the work of the commission.
Publish commission newsletters on a continuing basis, including on the
commission home page.
Consider establishing a working group on public/private partnerships to
study different procedures for making contracts to plan and implement more
sustainable development in cities, to prepare best practice examples and to
see how these influence financial and social outcomes.
Endeavour to produce abstracts of workshop and seminar papers in French,
German and other languages.
Vice Chair Paul A. G. Lohmann
Paul A. G. Lohmann
Holland Urban Institute
Nieboerweg 228
NL-2566 GC The Hague
NETHERLANDS
E-mail: Lohmann.Paul[at]Zonnet.nl
Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Brackmann, Chairperson of Commission 8
