The Nola Green memorial lecture: Wednesday 25 May 1988 - The next hundred years: A planner's viewpoint

Abstract

The somewhat provocative title to this talk was chosen deliberately. It seems to me that planning is meaningless unless it attempts to deal with the future and therefore the minimum duty of any physical planner is to attempt to forecast future trends, and like any good navi­gator, advise clients - including the authorities at any level - of the way these trends can best be optimized and in what direction they should be guided.