This document discusses criticisms of Agenda 21, a UN plan for sustainable development. It outlines concerns from "Agenda 21ers" who believe Agenda 21 will undermine individual freedoms and private property rights by herding people into dense cities. However, the document argues planners should take these criticisms seriously and engage critics through respectful dialogue. It suggests appreciating free market concerns, focusing on local sustainability solutions, and being clear about potential impacts rather than using jargon. The overall aim is finding common ground and understanding between planners and Agenda 21 critics.
This document discusses criticisms of Agenda 21, a UN plan for sustainable development. It outlines concerns from "Agenda 21ers" who believe Agenda 21 will undermine individual freedoms and private property rights by herding people into dense cities. However, the document argues planners should take these criticisms seriously and engage critics through respectful dialogue. It suggests appreciating free market concerns, focusing on local sustainability solutions, and being clear about potential impacts rather than using jargon. The overall aim is finding common ground and understanding between planners and Agenda 21 critics.
This document discusses criticisms of Agenda 21, a UN plan for sustainable development. It outlines concerns from "Agenda 21ers" who believe Agenda 21 will undermine individual freedoms and private property rights by herding people into dense cities. However, the document argues planners should take these criticisms seriously and engage critics through respectful dialogue. It suggests appreciating free market concerns, focusing on local sustainability solutions, and being clear about potential impacts rather than using jargon. The overall aim is finding common ground and understanding between planners and Agenda 21 critics.
This document discusses criticisms of Agenda 21, a UN plan for sustainable development. It outlines concerns from "Agenda 21ers" who believe Agenda 21 will undermine individual freedoms and private property rights by herding people into dense cities. However, the document argues planners should take these criticisms seriously and engage critics through respectful dialogue. It suggests appreciating free market concerns, focusing on local sustainability solutions, and being clear about potential impacts rather than using jargon. The overall aim is finding common ground and understanding between planners and Agenda 21 critics.
Whittemore, A.H., 2012. Why Planners Need to Take Agenda 21 Criticism More Seriously. The Atlantic Cities. [online] http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/02/why-planners-need-takeagenda-21-criticism-more-seriously/1159/
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
AGENDA 21 IN A NUTSHELL (RE: SETTLEMENTS)
proposes tangible strategies relating to planning and development Chapter 10: Integrated Approach to the Planning and Management of Land Resources facilitate allocation of land to uses with greatest sustainable benefits by considering environmental, social, economic issues through management-related activities (policies, management systems, awareness, public participation) using proper cost evaluation, scientific and technological means, human resource development, capacity-building, and institutions
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
AGENDA 21ERS activists who rail against all sorts of local/state efforts in the US to push for urban planning under the Agenda 21 flag sees that this could be UNs way of taking over United States by development plans to herd people into dense cities and away from private properties influenced states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama to pass AntiAgenda 21 bills
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
ABSURD LAH! YOU
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
HOW DO WE ENGAGE THESE
PEOPLE IN A PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE? ANDREW WHITTEMORE
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
A GLOBAL TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS?
PLANNERS
AGENDA 21ERS
Think Globally, Act Locally:
Appreciate sustainability by understanding global (often indirect) impact of individual actions.
Individuals submitting to global commons opens doors to possibility that many profitable or enjoyed activities would cease.
Sustainable development may be practiced by regulating growth boundaries.
Sustainable development as herding humans into congested colonies. Abolition of current freemarket conditions
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
A GLOBAL TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS?
Rather than reject these perceptions, engage by appreciating current free-market conditions and utilize this framework in seeking sustainability. In truth, there are a limited amount of resources and we need to be as conservation-oriented as possible. One of the best protections of scarce resources is to allow the market to decide what we most value and what less so.
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A COMMUNIST?
PLANNERS Changing demographics calls for denser, mixed-use construction.
AGENDA 21ERS Veering away from miles and miles of detached housing with green lawns means we are approaching eco-totalitarianism
Sub-urban development is actually highly regulated, dependent
as that is on zoning, federal mortgage insurance, tax deductions, utility subsidies, eminent domain and other expenditures involved in road and water infrastructure, and more.
CRITICISMS TO AGENDA 21
PRACTICE WHAT YOUR PREACH
PLANNERS One-size-fits all approach to sustainability. Urban development problems are hardly casually observable in the household level. Visioning and planning that is not based on genuine local feeling.
AGENDA 21ERS Status quo of urbanization and suburbanization is the exclusive product of the market, individual wealth, and democracy. Anything not within this model is therefore not American, and is derived from UN, which is bent on breaching national sovereignty.
Engage in dialogue by being explicit about the most direct harms coming to residents and businesses, giving attention to local solutions, and dropping the jargon.
