Reflections on Planning Practice In An Age of Reaction
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 3 (1) , 5-12
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x8300300102
Abstract
At a time when community planning has set aside utopian ideas of the good society, critical theory provides a starting point for the analysis of the advanced industrial society In place of a unitary vision of the good society it offers a mechanism for finding it The article suggests a program for planning practice which is based on an examination of the relationship between planning theory and planning practice The tasks of planners in this time of adver sity should be to rediscover and enrich content, to locate this content in a true political context, to mount a new level of self-criticism, to develop instruments of tactical reason, and to emphasize the planner's role of educator.Keywords
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