Planning introduction, week 1

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.