The focus of study this week was Anglo-American Town Planning Theory since 1945: Three Significant Developments but no Paradigm Shifts- Nigel Taylor
The focal point for this week was to understand the ideological changes in planning post 1945. From this text I understood that planners looked at towns from just a physical/morphological view which then extends to a more broad perspective of towns in their physical, aesthetic and a focus on the interrelated activities in a state of constant change/flux.
The point that most interested me about this text was that most planning theorists have openly acknowledged the value-laden and political nature of planning. I find this idea creative in the sense that town planning gives the general public the opportunity to have an opinion and be valued for their judgment. In some industries the professional appears to know all, and the general populous are considered inferior because they are excluded from the process. In this regard, I have found planning to be the antithesis of this approach.
From this reading I got the impression that planning as we know it is constantly changing so why should a paradigm shift have taken place since 1945 as there have been multiple changes in planning over the past 90 years. I would be ignorant not to say that it will continue to change exponentially in the future. I think this is the radical nature of planning.
Agree that planning will continue to change exponentially in the future, given the accelerating changes and uncertainties: population, globalisation, technology, and climate change. Richard
ReplyDeleteI don't understand your point that town planning gives the general populous the chance to have a an opinion and be valued for their judgment. Are you saying that post 1945 this was the case or what are you saying was the impetus?
ReplyDeleteDid the fact that it was a post war era have anything to do with the paradigm shift? there was a huge amount of rebuilding to do in post war America that would have been a good reason for a paradigm shift