Hey my name is Nicholas Goodman and I am at present studying a
bachelor of building construction management at the University of Canberra. I
am currently in my 2nd year of university and just started my way to achieve my
major in planning. For planning theory and process 1 ( my first unit in my
planning major) we were asked to create this blog to document our work
through the semester and to discuss work that we have looked at with other
class mates and the wider community if possible.
For our first class we looked into what
the word planning and what things actually belonged under this word, this was
achieved through the reading "journal of planning education and
research". This journal giving a much broader view of the word to me as I’m
sure my peers would agree. It was much more of an in depth look into the
fundamentals of planning and what are the basic attributes that people
needed to be successful planners.
We were also given another reading
"arguments for and against planning" by Richard E. Klosterman. In this
argument there were a few main perspectives but over all I believe that the document
has outlined a huge gap between planning’s potential to help society overall
and what planning current is achieving for us. It states that a major
contributing factor to this conclusion lies with the “overly rigid and
conservative regulations” that are placed upon planning. This showing that
although planning does serve as a benefit to the community, this argument is
asking much more from the planning sector. It states that the profession must
challenge itself and continue to learn from it mistakes to achieve its “ultimate
potential”
I believe that this week in class has helped me a lot to
understand what will be a part of future classes for planning theory and
process 1 and has raised some important issues within the planning sector that I
found very interesting. In saying that it was not that big of a surprise that
the argument for and against planning resulted in the conclusion that it needed
to challenge itself in order it improve. This is common in many different
sections of life where you must challenge what you are doing and always be
seeking improvements if you want to achieve success.
Cheers for reading Nicholas Goodman.
