
Skills for Planning Practice
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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
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