What must planners do differently?

Malcolm Tait, Andy Inch, and Jason Slade
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the University of Sheffield

Zan Gunn, Geoff Vigar, and Abigail Schoneboom
Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University

Ben Clifford
Bartlett School of Planning, University College London

July 2020

Contents

• Introduction

• Proud of planning, proud of planners?

• Professionalism: What does it mean to be a professional in planning?

• Work-life balance: Planning in a stressed-out society.

• Commercialisation: Roll up! Roll up! Planning services for sale.

• Careers in planning: “It’s not you, it’s me”: Navigating careers in planning and finding an ‘organisational fit’.

• Planning ethics: The need for a ‘do no harm’ principle to help secure the public interest?

• Planners’ agency: Where are the spaces to make a positive difference in an imperfect planning system?

• The public interest: Working in the public interest?

• References