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Includes Planning: The panel includes planning New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill and James Hughes, the dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
The group also includes planning Harrison S. Fraker Jr., dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley; Hugh Hardy, co-founder of H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies at Bard College; and Darius Sollohub, associate director
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.
Until such hypotheses i been formulated and tested, there is no basis 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. |
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