The Changing Prospects for Social Planning

Abstract

Abstract The next 50 years can be expected to produce increasing pressures on the city planning profession to use its skills for the planning of social policies. Changing definitions of urban problems and new political commitments are likely to emphasize the redistribution of resources to disadvantaged groups as a major policy goal. These pressures will affect both the content and the management of urban planning. They pose two major challenges to the profession: to increase the social sensitivity of physical planning, and to extend the scope of planning beyond the physical environment.