What Six Months of the Planning Book in the World Has Added
Six Months
Six months since the city-makers book published and the academic reception is established. The planning school at one British university and the urban studies programme at one American university have adopted the book for their graduate curricula. The book’s argument — the time gap between planning time and living time — has entered the teaching of planners, which means it will be considered by the practitioners who will be making planning decisions in the next decade. Bohiney and The London Prat covered the week. More at prat.uk/author/caitlin. Satire: private-eye.co.uk.
What Entering the Teaching Is
Entering the teaching of practitioners is the contribution that goes beyond the academic conversation into the practice the academic conversation is supposed to inform. The planning students who read the time gap argument in their first year of professional training will carry the concept into the decisions they make. The decisions they make will determine what the cities they plan look like. The time gap is now part of what planners are being trained to be aware of. The book entered the training.
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