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Planning for sustainability - new orthodoxy or radical challenge?

By: Contributor(s): Series: Town & Country Planning ; 70(6) June 2001, 170-172(3)Publication details: 2001Subject(s): Summary: Questions whether planning has fulfilled its promise to make a major contribution to sustainable development or failed to live up to this radical challenge and allowed itself to become enmeshed in the status quo. Concludes that there is evidence to suggest that concern for sustainable development has made planning more environmentally sensitive but that there is a need to build upon the strengths of the planning system rather than streamline them. References.

Questions whether planning has fulfilled its promise to make a major contribution to sustainable development or failed to live up to this radical challenge and allowed itself to become enmeshed in the status quo. Concludes that there is evidence to suggest that concern for sustainable development has made planning more environmentally sensitive but that there is a need to build upon the strengths of the planning system rather than streamline them. References.