Education, practice and professionalism: a comparative history of the development of urban and regional planning in Italy and Australia

Dave Hedgcock and Andrea Marçel Pidalà

Planning Perspectives, 2014, vol. 29, issue 4, 527-542

Abstract: This paper outlines the historical relationship between planning legislation, planning practice and planning education in Italy and Australia by identifying the positive and negative roles of institutional influences and the emergence of professional planning communities. The key findings revolve around the gap between plan preparation and plan implementation, and the role of institutions and professional communities in resisting political interference and maintaining a technocratic imperative within planning systems. While the exertion of professional power can be seen to achieve positive planning and development outcomes, it is often at the expense of the democratic traditions that have come to characterize postmodern planning systems.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2014.938100

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