Dr Phil Day was a lawyer and planner with top-level expertise in decentralisation of urban development, land valuation and land value taxation. These fields of speciality are relevant to the securing of public open space in localities where residential development is expanding. His extensive writings on land value taxation also have high-order – and contemporary – relevance to the shape of our cities. A brief account of his career appears in Wikipedia.

This page will come to include an archive of Dr Day’s writings and records of the influence he has had in planning policy. PaRC thanks his son Michael Day for making his professional papers available for scanning and PaRC team member Ron Turner for the painstaking task of scanning.

 

 

Development Control Bonuses: Why Not? Phil Day and David Perkins 1984.

Approaching High Noon? – on qualifications and education of planners. P.D. Day 1986.

Taxing Land or Incomes? – P.D. Day three articles, c.1987.

Brisbane- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – speech to Brisbane Development Association, 28 March 1985. Optimised down to 15.4 MB to reduce size.

Planning in Crisis– a rational polemic against the Integrated Planning Act 1997. This paper is dated 17 June 2001.

Planning Instruments: Evolution of Queensland’s Planning System: Planning Instruments and Processes. Dr Day has annotated the margin that this 19 page paper was commissioned by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Planting, sometime in the 1990s.

Valuing Green Space – 2 April 2001, with a note in the margin that it was intended for journalist Phil Dickie.

The Big Party Syndrome: A Study of the Impact of Special Events and Inner Urban Change in Brisbane.

Speech notes on “People in the Cities“.

 

Miscellaneous lectures and articles, including papers on:

  • permanent caravan dwellers for an Affordable Housing seminar;
  • putting the Urban Environment Back on the Agenda (1989 Hancock Public Forum);;
  • Queensland: Analysis of Income Distribution;
  • an article on the Very Fast Train submitted to Australian Society;
  • a presentation to the Bayside Action Group in 1987;
  • a presentation to the Brisbane Development Association New Town Plan seminar in 1986; another to the  BDA Post-Expo seminar;
  • “Blackmail No! – But Wide Open to Abuse” on developer windfalls in 1977.