New Zealand Planning Institute
Encyclopedia
The New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) is a professional body for planners
, resource managers
, urban design
ers and environmental practitioners
in New Zealand
, primarily serving the interests of town and spatial planners. Its purpose is to promote professional excellence and works in partnership with planners throughout the country, to assist them to shape the future according to the changing and diverse needs of all New Zealanders. The institute was established in 1949.
Planning
Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...
, resource managers
Resource management
In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment of an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology...
, urban design
Urban design
Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and in more recent times has...
ers and environmental practitioners
Environmental planning
Environmental Planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out development with due consideration given to the natural environmental, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic frame work to achieve sustainable outcomes.-Elements of environmental...
in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, primarily serving the interests of town and spatial planners. Its purpose is to promote professional excellence and works in partnership with planners throughout the country, to assist them to shape the future according to the changing and diverse needs of all New Zealanders. The institute was established in 1949.
Conference Speakers
Speakers hosted at the New Zealand Planning Institute Conference have included;- John Bollard
- David Benson-PopeDavid Benson-PopeDavid Henry Benson-Pope is a New Zealand Labour Party politician who sat in the Parliament of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008. He formerly served as a cabinet minister....
- Cliff HagueCliff HagueCliff Hague is a town planning practitioner, academic and theorist. He was Professor of Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, until 2006, and now is Emeritus Professor and works as a freelance consultant and researcher. He is chairing the Commonwealth expert...
- Dr. Caroline MillerCaroline MillerCaroline Pafford Miller was an American writer.In 1934, Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, Lamb in His Bosom, about her home state of Georgia...
- Rod OramRod OramRod Oram is a New Zealand journalist writing on corporate, economic and political issues. He is a columnist for The Sunday Star-Times and Good Magazine, a regular broadcaster on radio and television and a frequent public speaker...
- Michael GunderMichael GunderMichael Gunder is a Senior planning lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, and is a past president of the New Zealand Planning Institute...
- Alison WallAlison WallAlison Wall is an actress, best known for her role as Minya in the American TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.-Career:...
- Bryan JenkinsBryan JenkinsDr Bryan Jenkins is an Australian environmental planner. He has a Ph.D in environmental planning from Stanford University, a Master's degree in civil engineering from Adelaide University and a Master of Administration from Monash University.-Biography:...
- Ludo Campbell-ReidLudo Campbell-ReidLudo Campbell-Reid is Design Champion and Manager Environmental Strategy & Policy Department at Auckland Council. He is an internationally recognised urban designer and planning specialist with over 18 years of senior public and private sector experience gained on high profile city transformation...