This was super interesting & delightfully obscure - speaking here as a planner who started out in the 00s so that period is interesting to look back to.
"It’s also hard not to think that since a high water mark for planning in the 1960s and 70s the profession has been leaking away power and influence ever since, heading back to the state we see here."
You've perfectly encapsulated what seems to be happening in development and planning – the developers have the power and the planners have little to fight them off with. I suppose it shouldn't be like that at all. Developers and planners should work together to create better places, not fight each other. And planners should use their powers to stop developers doing the wrong thing.
(I also love finding old books and magazines in shops that tell us something about the past and the future. Great find.)
This was super interesting & delightfully obscure - speaking here as a planner who started out in the 00s so that period is interesting to look back to.
"It’s also hard not to think that since a high water mark for planning in the 1960s and 70s the profession has been leaking away power and influence ever since, heading back to the state we see here."
You've perfectly encapsulated what seems to be happening in development and planning – the developers have the power and the planners have little to fight them off with. I suppose it shouldn't be like that at all. Developers and planners should work together to create better places, not fight each other. And planners should use their powers to stop developers doing the wrong thing.
(I also love finding old books and magazines in shops that tell us something about the past and the future. Great find.)