.. and why does David think he's so good?
I don't know what the "Centre for Resource Management Studies" is, it looks to me like Owen McShane and a couple of mates have formed a ginger group with an impressive name. The article in the Herald by their "director" Owen demonstrates a remarkable lack of insight into the management of resources!
He suggests that we should be following the North American model of communities of interest based on the expensive and unsustainable lifestyle of the automobile, and uses this to knock down some straw men that he erects in place of community planning.
Hello Owen! It's the 21st Century! Resource planning for the future should be for *sustainability* planning, not profligate consumption. We'll be wanting those neighbourhood centres soon enough, and planners *should* be taking that into account ... now.
But then it seems this lad is also one of the Peak Oil denial squad. What's the real agenda eh?