planning by gaslight - on reforms, skills and political work in planning

摘要

Debates over sustaining the profile and merits of planning are long-standing, yet the need for planning - for example in combating climate change, in addressing the housing affordability crisis, and in rebalancing the UK's regions - is stronger than ever. To quote the late Sir Peter Hall, 'we need not less planning, but more'. But achieving a strong and responsive profession appears to be proving harder than ever, as planning continues to fragment across tasks, knowledges, and sectors.The question of what skills or characteristics are essential for the work of the professional planner is as old as the profession itself, and we have no definitive answer to this; but we do believe that now is the time to re-assert political skills and public-facing behaviours which ensure that the value of planning is better understood.