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As well as being spatial, planning is necessarily also about the future - and yet time has been relatively neglected in the academic, practice and policy literature on planning. Time, in particular the need for longer-term thinking, is critical to responding effectively to a range of pressing societal challenges from climate change to an ageing population, poor urban health to sustainable economic development. This makes the relative neglect of time not only a matter of theoretical importance but also increasing practical and political significance. A Future for Planning is an accessible, wide-ranging book that considers how planning practice and policy have been constrained by short-termism, as well as by a familiar lack of spatial thinking in policy, in response to major social, economic and environmental challenges. It suggests that failures in planning often represent failures to anticipate and shape the future which go well beyond planning systems and practices; rather our failure to plan for the longer-term relates to wider issues in policy-making and governance. This book traces the rise and fall of long-term planning over the past 80 years or so, but also sets out how planning can take responsibility for twenty-first century challenges. It provides examples of successes and failures of longer-term planning from around the world. In short, the book argues that we need to put time back into planning, and develop forms of planning which serve to promote the sustainability and wellbeing of future generations

The dark-born magic -- The uses of solitude -- All together now -- What is solitude for? -- Bolt from the blue -- The wandering mind -- Daydream destroyers -- Who do you think you are? -- Style -- You have to taste this -- Stranger in a strange land -- A walk in the wilds -- Knowing others -- Social stories -- Love letters -- The failing body -- The cabin in the woods

"Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives. Michael Harris chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we've gained--and lost--in the bargain. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Harris argues that our greatest loss has been that of absence itself--of silence, wonder, and solitude. It's a surprisingly precious commodity, and one we have less of every year. Drawing on a vast trove of research and scores of interviews with global experts, Harris explores this "loss of lack" in chapters devoted to every corner of our lives, from sex and commerce to memory and attention span. The book's message is urgent: once we've lost the gift of absence, we may never remember its value"--

Australia's form of democracy is suffering a crisis of public confidence. In one major record of public opinion, confidence in government was 40 percent, the second-lowest point since records commenced in 1969. This research project has investigated one aspect of the democratic contract between a government and its citizenry: government openness with its public and the effect of this on public trust. It is an area of research that is not well investigated. Focusing on circumstances where governments should be focused on the interests of their citizens and not on themselves, the research project investigated the crisis narrative of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, specifically the official commentaries of the Malaysian and Australian governments and their agencies. These official statements were subjected to review using a case study approach involving qualitative methods. This analysis found three distinctive discourses; the first focused almost singularly on the Malaysian government's efforts to meet the needs of the families of those lost in the disaster; the second was almost exclusively related to search operations and operational information provided by search agencies when operations shifted to the Southern Indian Ocean; and the third related to the strategic opportunities explored by the Australian government during search operations in the southern search arc. It was found that existing crisis communication models do not reflect the pressures and demands of the contemporary information environment. Furthermore, the research data and their analysis led to the conclusion and recommendation that a more open government may be required in the current political environment in which public trust has been declining.