There are three planning horizons, and you must work with them all at once.
1. Control costs. - It's important to get value for money.
2. Add value to existing businesses and existing infrastructure.
3. Plan for the future based on your core skills.
The "new Christchurch" has to work on many different levels. One of
these is economic and it is in this realm that Marcus Spiller will speak
at TEDxEQChCh. Spiller is a Director of SGS Economics & Planning. In
addition to his extensive consulting experience, he has been a lecturer
in urban economics at Melbourne University, an adviser to the Planning
Minister in Victoria and a senior official in the Queensland Government.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and a former
National President of the Planning Institute of Australia.