IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirb/v28y2001i5p639-654.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Decade On: Reflections on the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Practice of Urban Planning in New Zealand

Author

Listed:
  • Harvey C Perkins

    (Social Science and Humanities Group, Human Sciences Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand)

  • David C Thorns

    (Department of Sociology, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand)

Abstract

The radical restructuring of New Zealand's planning system in 1991 was based on the Resource Management Act and significant amendments to the Local Government Act 1974. In this paper we report a study of urban planning in New Zealand under this new regime. Amendments to the Local Government Act were designed in large part to facilitate the administration of the Resource Management Act, the authors of which wanted to emphasise the sustainable management of the biophysical environment and dramatically to limit local government's involvement in urban and social planning. Ironically, the strategic planning provisions of the amended Local Government Act gave local government contradictory powers. We discuss the nature of this contradiction and its impacts on the ways in which district planning under the Resource Management Act and strategic planning under the Local Government Act have combined to create new and unforseen approaches to urban planning and management in New Zealand.

Suggested Citation

  • Harvey C Perkins & David C Thorns, 2001. "A Decade On: Reflections on the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Practice of Urban Planning in New Zealand," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 28(5), pages 639-654, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:28:y:2001:i:5:p:639-654
    DOI: 10.1068/b2744
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/b2744
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/b2744?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Andrea Schöllmann & Harvey C Perkins & Kevin Moore, 2000. "Intersecting Global and Local Influences in Urban Place Promotion: The Case of Christchurch, New Zealand," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 32(1), pages 55-76, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Adrienne La Grange & Frederik Pretorius, 2005. "Shifts along the Decommodification-Commodification Continuum: Housing Delivery and State Accumulation in Hong Kong," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(13), pages 2471-2488, December.
    2. McKay Tracey, 2017. "The South African Adventure Tourism Economy: An urban phenomenon," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 37(37), pages 63-76, September.
    3. Harvey C Perkins & David C Thorns & Bronwyn M Newton, 2008. "Real Estate Advertising and Intraurban Place Meaning: Real Estate Sales Consultants at Work," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 40(9), pages 2061-2079, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:28:y:2001:i:5:p:639-654. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.