Plan Canada - Vol 43 No 3 (2003)

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    Plan Canada - Volume 43, Number 3 (Autumn 2003)
    (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003-09)
    Politics and planning|Politique et urbanisme
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    Contents
    (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003)
    Table of contents for Plan Canada - Volume 43, Number 3 (Autumn 2003).
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    Politics and planning schools
    (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003) Wolfe, Jeanne M.
    An informal survey of planning schools shows that an appreciation of the political nature of planning is well embedded in planning teaching, activism and research. It also leads to reflections on what are the real political challenges for planners today.
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    Politics and planning: Ten lessons from an old campaigner
    (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003) Cowie, Art
    Art Cowie is a rare breed of planner who has wrestled with planning issues as both a politician and a professional planner. In this article, he shares lessons about the profession that he learned during his 35-year career encompassing both roles.
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    Mediating the politics of place: Negotiating our professional and personal selves
    (Canadian Institute of Planners, 2003) Wight, Ian
    Politics often gets "a bad rap" from planners, who perceive it as problematic or undermining, and as something to be negated or neutralized. Daniel Kemmis, in his Community and the Politics of Place, presents a more positive view of a higher politics, interpreted here as a form of "democratics". From this vantage point, much of the politics that planners decry is possibly more akin to "plutocratics" or " autocratics". However, it is also possible that, deep down, planners really want a default form of politics, namely "technocratic", that would play more to their own traditional strengths. What could be more politically correct?