This shortage of planners will also impact on the productivity of cities which are the most significant generator of productivity around the world. If the high rates of urbanisation being experienced in many cities were combined with effective planning this could potentially have an increasingly positive impact on productivity in the economic centres of many countries.
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Figure 1 Population per individual member of national planning association
Survey of the Planning Profession in the Commonwealth
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