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Basis Planning Next: Until such hypotheses i been formulated and tested, there is no basis planning next i which the planner can decide whether the prc of decentralization should be accepted as i: itable or whether redevelopment, as the ten currently used, does or does not make sense, is probable that this absence of social data, as lated to physical planning, is the reason for lack of a sound philosophical approach to planning as a whole and accounts for the fai of planning, at this time, to be much more tha series of expedients.
The Partnership for Health program was the product of this growing dissatisfaction. The main features of the law were: comprehensive state-wide health planning, participation on a majority basis planning next of nonprofessional citizens in the planning process, and federal financial support for public health programs defined by the state planning agencies. These few ground rules represented a tremendous potential for making public health services responsive to the needs of people in local communities.
Another major public health development in the U.S. was the passage of the Regional Medical Centers Act.
The real task of the planning board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning, planning according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives. |
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