Short Review Article About Planning Theory for the Naive

STUDENT NAME: AFIQ IZZUDDIN BIN MOHD RADZALI (2011601132) CODE /COURSES: BTP311/ PLANNING THEORY LECTURER NAME: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR HAZLINA HAMDAN

SEMESTER: SEPT 2011-JAN 2012 SUBMISSION DATE: 28/09/2011

SHORT REVIEW ARTICLE: PLANNING THEORY FOR THE NAIVE BY CHRISTER BENGS

Trades between human, organization or government has going through on states, leagues of cities in partnership; by ages through ages, and also the free flow money and assets across boundaries or within states and all that happens due to the expanding capitalism around all over the world also effecting planning development. In the globalisation era, the era where the productive investments and profit for a few person are preferred than the development for the community as a whole. In other words, most countries of the world seems to generate wealth for a few and poverty for the rest. Planning theory more stress on the communication with the community (bottom up) while public control (top down) is having a development without consulting the community. Somehow practitioners of planning theory have to deals with the moral judgement which either moral dilemma or ethical compromises. Planners have to work with limited time schedule, planning processes and envisaged outcomes. They also have to define the issue occurred in the nationally or locally and to interpret in the planning development. The professional dilemma between planner and architect, as planner more focuses combination or pieces of political science, economics, psychology, geography, art history and aesthetics. Meanwhile architect masters in many aspect especially that related to building and design. Planning theory can outcome the moral dilemma as it concern problem formulation as well as problem solve. Planning theories involving in the procedure from the beginning (formulation goal and objectives) until end (monitoring the development). Theory in planning helps the planner to understand their area of concern deeply as they concern the subject that matters to planning such as land use, environment and sustainability. Theory in planning is more on procedural theory that helps the planner to find the way how to operate it which that is more on techniques and conceptual models. In planning, communicative turn is the most influential proponents as it is used to dealing and compromising the development as long as it is relevant in planning. Planning theory confront with two basic concept – ‘public interest’ and ‘political community’. Public interest is more on approach for fulfilling the society needs and

what is beneficiary to the majority such as public transportation. Next is political community that is more on policies or long term strategies. Political community is about providing the wants certain groups or minorities in the communities and for examples, the buildings of high wealthy mall. As a conclusion from the author, communicative acts are better instead of brutal alternatives in order to seek the solutions for the planning development by established and delivered the public needs and demands in order to providing the better and comfortable community.


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