The role of planning: Club Mykonos and a sense of deja vu

Abstract

The workshop on the Future of the Planning Profession, held at the Club Mykonos on the West Coast, in November 1995, saw the beginnings of some important and necessary agreements about where the profession should be heading. However, it also became clear during the discussions that there is no general agreement about what the focus of (urban and regional) planning is or what its role should be. On two issues at least I had a strong and disturbing sense of deja vu. I regard these issues as being so fundamental that I record them here, to contribute to the emerging debate on planning and its future.