Planning in Fiji

Today we started to look at the issues facing planning in Fiji. Students had the opportunity to see an interview with a planner in Fiji. Currently there are 3 planners serving the whole country of 850,000 people.

Summary of comments about this blog from 2009 332 students

Following is a list of summarised students' comments about this blog and relevant course materials made during the lecture on 25 August 2009.

• Like to do polls;
• Not enough information and sources for detailed discussions and debates;
• More graphics and images, more debateable topics, no topics related to Australia;
• Want to response to someone else comments, poll is a great idea;
• Blog - good learning tool;
• Helpful slides for how to make comments and links to a photo.

US Portland the liveable city

Today we had an opportunity to watch the video on Portland and how it has approached the issue of sustainability through it's version of the Metropolitan Urban Limits or growth boundaries. Use the blog to contribute your reaction to the video and the thing(s) that struck you most about the approach and what Auckland and NZ could learn.

Do you agree that the challenges facing China are greater than New Zealand?

Cities in China have undergone significant change in the past two to three decades. Discuss challenges and issues facing planning in China in relation to the area you are researching for your journal article.

Do you agree that the challenges facing China are greater than New Zealand?
	Agree
	Disagree
	Don't know
pollcode.com free polls

Please explain your choice in "Comments" below.

Blog techniques

For people who want to post links of photos, here is the solution:

Type in:

"a href="URL of the photo">Link to the photo"

and

before "a", type in "<"
after "to the photo" type in "/a" within "<  >"

If it does not work, re-typing the quotation marks should help. You are welcome to leave questions in comments, I will answer all questions in this post.