What is it about?
It focuses in particular on the socioeconomic, political and administrative challenges and constraints facing the town planning office in enforcing building bylaws, encouraging land-pooling, developing roads and protecting public land, especially in the context of the proactive stance taken by the author. The paper concludes that a less proactive approach might achieve more in moving towards greater receptiveness to the concept and objectives of urban planning.
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Why is it important?
Provides lessons for planners engaged in plan implementation
Perspectives
Managing resistance to planning and seeking wider cooperation is key to a plan implementation
Dr Tej Kumar Karki
University of Liverpool
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This page is a summary of: Challenges of managing a government town planning office in Nepal: a planner’s experience, Environment and Urbanization, October 2004, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/095624780401600213.
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