Three Provocations for Planners

Placematters’ director Ken Snyder, last week at our “Salon at the Saloon” in New Orleans, offered three provocations for planners:

  • What if we eliminated traditional public meetings?
  • What if we eliminated traditional comprehensive plans?
  • What if no more than 2/3 of staff at all planning agencies are traditional planners?  What if the rest were planners with unconventional planning backgrounds, fiction writers, community organizers and outreach folks, designers, architects, futurologists, or educators?
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  1. By The End of Planning on April 18, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    [...] Perhaps we need to eliminate traditional public meetings (one of Ken Snyder’s “Three Provocations for Planners”). [...]