Patsy Healey President 1994-1996
THE POTENTIAL OF THE PLANNING ‘DISCIPLINE’
As I have argued elsewhere, the key contribution of the ‘planning discipline’ is to generate knowledge, ideas, values and development skills to assist in the challenge of enhancing place qualities in ways which promote greater liveability and sustainability for us all in our capacious but vulnerable planet (Healey 2010). This challenge grows ever more pressing and complex. The societies we live in are not only increasingly interconnected, but also share in urbanised lifestyles and aspirations. Despite these interconnections, our lifestyles and aspirations are very varied, and the way we live now is riven with unsustainable practices and gross inequalities. Planning expertise in this context is drawn upon both to suggest ways in which place qualities might be enhanced in particular places, but also to find ways through destructive conflicts and to reach towards more
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