Mediating the global and the local: A natural crossroads for planning and planners?
Subject
Abstract
Globalization is all around us. It is a fundamental
dimension of the changing
world that planners-and others-have to
come to terms with these days. It was an
almost inevitable focus of one of the 1998
CIP Conference sessions, attracting a particularly
large contingent of curious and
questioning attendees. This article discusses how the global dimension of the planners' changing world was considered in a series of presentations by Pamela Robinson, Gillian Mason, and Ian Wight. Collectively, the
presentations yielded the notion that
mediating the global and the local might
be a natural crossroads for planning and
planners-connecting relevant knowledge
with necessary action.