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Charting
Our Future.....
A principal focus of the planning profession is preparing for the future. This requires not only forecasts of likely or possible future conditions, but also design of plans to make desirable forecasts come true (and to avoid undesirable futures). NEW Dowell
Myers and Elizabeth Gearin, "Current Preferences and Future Demand for
Denser Residential Environments," Housing Policy Debate, 12 (4,
2002):633-660. View
Summary NEW Has Planning Lost Its Relevance to the Future? You Take the Test…PDF file Dowell Myers, "Building the Future as a Process in Time," Metropolitan Development Patterns, Annual Roundtable 2000, Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2000. PDF file For a review of the latest thinking about how to
plan for the future, see "Constructing the
Future...."
The 'bread and butter' of planning practice involves short-term projections of ...environmental impacts ( new window) Planning also entails longer-range analyses and visions of future development patterns ...population growth (50% increase in California between 1990 and 2020)The future is coming faster in Los Angeles because the pace of growth and change is so rapid here.
Working in this environment, planners at USC are better prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century. |
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