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Replacing the dinosaur: Changing roles for planners in South Africa
Planning theory and practice reflect the cultural and political context in which planning occurs. The purpose of this article is to examine the variety of planning contexts which have been described in the literature and to applythese to South Africa. For this purpose, five categories or perspectives were used, namely, technocratic, democratic, reformist, radical and liberal. As reform in South Africa is set to continue and to gather momentumin the next few years, these categories provide a useful framework for the analysis of the possible nature of change, and for consideration of possible roles which South African planners can adopt in changing contexts."Planning . could be a truly innovative field in our epoch of crisis. . .The current process of social change forces planning itself to change, if we want our discipline to be a guide for action instead of becoming an outdated bureaucratic routine" (Castells 1982:3).
Replacing the dinosaur: Changing roles for planners in South Africa
Planning theory and practice reflect the cultural and political context in which planning occurs. The purpose of this article is to examine the variety of planning contexts which have been described in the literature and to applythese to South Africa. For this purpose, five categories or perspectives were used, namely, technocratic, democratic, reformist, radical and liberal. As reform in South Africa is set to continue and to gather momentumin the next few years, these categories provide a useful framework for the analysis of the possible nature of change, and for consideration of possible roles which South African planners can adopt in changing contexts."Planning . could be a truly innovative field in our epoch of crisis. . .The current process of social change forces planning itself to change, if we want our discipline to be a guide for action instead of becoming an outdated bureaucratic routine" (Castells 1982:3).
Replacing the dinosaur: Changing roles for planners in South Africa
Laburn-Peart, Catherine (author)
1991-09-30
Town and Regional Planning; Vol. 31 (1991); 10-16 ; 2415-0495 ; 1012-280X
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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