Quote Contest: Guess the Professional Planner #1

[Wannaplan?]

Perhaps this is still true today:

If planners are to have any significant impact on policy, they must seize upon important issues, formulate their own positions, and then forcefully bring their work to the attention of decisionmakers.

Simply stated, planners must become more innovative, more entrepreneurial and more aggressive than they have been in the past. They must become "activists."

Who said it?

 

[Cardinal]

I don't know who said it, but boy did he ever get it right. APA has been in existence for 25 years an missed this?

Wild guess: Ian McHarg

 

[Wannaplan?]

Ian McHarg

Nope, that's not it. Think in the urban realm of planning, not environmental.

 

[Wulf9]

I think an activist planner is one who knows what is needed, has the knowledge to express it well, gives decisionmakers the opportunity to make good decisions, and reinforces the decisionmakers when they make a decision in that direction.

BF Skinner rides again.

But I don't know who was quoted.

 

[DecaturHawk]

Although he didn't teach at Rutgers, the CUPR published just about everybody. I'm guessing Paul Davidoff.

 

[Repo Man]

James Howard Kunstler

 

[Planderella]

Is this an AICP exam question???

 

[Wannaplan?]

Activist is the clue.

Think historically.

Ask youself, Which well-known planner has worked for a municipality and turned that planning department into one with an activist ethos?

 

[NHPlanner]

Norm Krumholtz

 

[Wannaplan?]

Norm Krumholtz

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