2004 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Spatial Planning in the Twenty-First Century: Continuing or Ceasing?
verfasst von : Willy A. Schmid, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Marco Keiner
Erschienen in: The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Why planning? Since the very first days of mankind, the unpredictable, the unforeseeable, and the unknown has been something bewildering, uncomfortable and even dangerous for human beings. However, the abilities of rational thinking and reasoning, of resolving conflicts and problems, and of perceiving space and time has enabled man to devise proposals for the future and design ‘plans.’ Planning, the “ideal of an alternative to the competitive management of uncertainty,” (Marris 1998:16) thus seems to be a basic need of mankind.