The Planner and Citizen Participation

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The comprehensive process has entered into an era of participatory planning. Professional planners and citizen clients have entered into new types of relationships during the last decade. For several years, various segments of our now highly pluralistic society have been demanding a much larger piece of the action from the beginning and continuing throughout the planning process and implementation phase. All kinds of planning—physical, social and economic—are being affected by this significant change in the planning process, although there are still, in many places, people who talk about “selling” plans to get acceptance and public support. Until recently, the national trend has been picking up at a rapid rate toward the increased involvement of all levels of citizens and citizen groups at all levels and stages of planning. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the planner as he relates to this comparatively new kind of citizen participation which is, indeed, foreign to many professional planners.

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