Skills for Planning Practice
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2017
296 pages
978-0-230-21292-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on the author's own extensive experience of planning practice at all levels, this major new text reflects on the skills needed to do the job and how these might be developed. Planning practice skills are divided into seven broad clusters which are introduced, analyzed, and then tested through self-assessment case studies and exercises.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-230-21292-3 (9780230212923)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Introduction
- Stance
- Some basic approaches
- The broad nature and purpose of planning systems
- Skills for planning practice
- The development of a planning career during a professional working lifetime
- The forces driving change to the context within which planning operates
- Government support for planning
- The structure of the book
- 2 Technical Skills
- Introduction
- The processes of development plan-making
- The processes of development control and of achieving area or environmental improvements
- Design negotiations
- Achieving accessibility for disabled people
- Crime prevention through environmental design
- Brief preparation to achieve area or environmental improvements
- The application of topic-based expertise: the case of retail planning
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 3 Planning System and Process Skills
- Introduction
- The process of making development plans
- The process of development control
- Processes of public consultation and involvement
- Adversarial processes
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 4 Place Skills
- Introduction
- Written sources of place information
- Oral sources, and other forms of customer feedback
- Using the local media
- The first-hand experience of planners
- The nature of place-making
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 5 Customer Skills
- Introduction
- The customers of the planning service
- The key characteristics of the main customer clusters
- Relating to customer needs
- Securing customer feedback
- The capacity and potential of information technology
- Conclusion
- Self-assessment topics
- 6 Personal Skills
- Introduction
- Communication skills
- Attitudes, values and ethics
- Reflective skills and continuous personal and professional development
- Being an effective member of a planning team
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 7 Organizational, Management and Political Context Skills
- Introduction
- Decision-making in planning
- The corporate dimension of organizational behaviour
- The challenge of managing the delivery of planning services
- Working with elected members as planning decision-makers
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 8 Synoptic and Integrative Skills
- Introduction
- Synoptic skills
- The strategic dimension of planning
- The time-bound nature of planning
- Visions
- Integrative skills
- Synoptic and integrative skills together
- Conclusions
- Self-assessment topics
- 9 The Changing Planning Skills Debate
- Introduction
- Some problems of terminology
- Changing views of planning skills over time - the contributions of selected writers
- Changing views of planning skills over time - the views of a professional body
- Changing views of planning skills over time - an urban regeneration perspective
- Changing views of planning skills over time - multi-professional perspectives
- Conclusion
- 10 Conclusions
- Introduction
- Skills for planning practice revisited
- The planner as reflective practitioner
- Developing skills for planning practice
- Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
