"unidimensional" - 1 õppematerjal

Myers, Kitsuse 2000 Constracting the Future in Planning

planners’ role in shaping the future, in some cases 3 bringing the future to the forefront of high- profile community participation campaigns. incorporated into long-range plans. Also absent from planners’ approach to the future is a systemic understanding of how multiple trends will extend forward and interact with one another, shaping new possibilities and patterns of behavior in the process. This unidimensional approach is most evident in planners’ treatment of population growth, which tends to be conceived as simply today’s population grown bigger. At the same time, the planning profession’s effort to become more relevant within the local political scene has strengthened planners’ emphasis on shortrange planning driven by two-year budget cycles and the short-term horizons of the electoral process.