Beplanning en die soeke na 'n nuwe ideaal

Abstract

With the changing political dispensa­tion in South Africa, the ideological background of the profession (and therefore its legitimacy) was ques­tioned. The answer to the question why we plan, changed fundamentally with the advent of the ideal of an integrated new South Africa. Changing thinking about planning to accommo­date the dominant political ideology in South Africa, seems not to be in accordance with the world-wide trend to a more Small-scale Post-Modernistic society. The crisis in which planning thought finds itself world-wide, due to the detrimental effects of Large-scale Modernism, can and must be seen as an opportunity to re-evaluate the ideals of planning and to establish a small-scale alternative for the way in which man involves himself with his natural and cultural environment. Only if we succeed in this venture, will the planning profession be able to plan, in a sustainable way, the long-term future of our country and its people. Plan­ning will also be safeguarded against accusations of serving the ideal of a single political ideology.
*This article is written in Afrikaans.