Australia: Perth, a city of another world

Abstract

In the past July 2011 has been developed in Perth (Western Australia), the 3 td World Congress of Planning School (WPSC 2011); the WPSC 2011 it was a 3 td edition of international debate between academic, researcher and university school of planning that they are match all together in many regional and mainland cluster. That two previous world congress there are been in Shanghai and Mexico City, this is the first occasion that the Congress decide to desert a metropolitan cities for it guess in medium dimension city like Perth, know also for be together at Honolulu a remote city of the planet. The reason is firstly because there are the organisation available from the University of Western Australia in the intention for give to an highlight for the City of Perth, that always is the community imagination a city of another world. The city that guess the Congress with the key track was Planning Future’s – Futures Planning. Planning in an Era of Global (Un)Certainty and Transformation result a good opportunity for glance and understand different dynamic relate the process of transformation of urban and regional planning in the planet. In this way the Australia show, in the occasion of the WPSC 2011, in front of the planner eyes like a new Scenarios process for the research in urban and regional planning systems and for the professional operator.

In this era of uncertainty and transformation full of conflicts and trend of globalization also formal, the are a fragment of the world that is offer for new explorative practice inside of the urban and regional field, a part of land not still well know and that allow like a natural occasion and opportunities for reflect and to experiment a new form of urban and regional planning.

From long time a go the Australia have towards of the community imagination a very strong attraction to foster a very interesting and curiosity to explore the it big land. Like a traveller that walk around the world, Italo Calvino always emphasize that, we won’t to know the place, to report at the city, landscape, and explore the survey, the last practice is usually inside of the common sensibility of the planners for find in the last stage a vision-project for the territory. Usually we are (planner) an exploratory with a desire of survey, analyses and realise a synthesis-plan with the us vision of the city and landscape, urban spaces, with project, plans and program, intentions, for deal to complexity and regeneration for a part of city and society.