The Coming Design Challenge

We have not yet faced, I think, the real revolution that took place m the planning profession m the last twenty years. Of course the 1960s were idealistic, effusive, and disruptive; the 1970s in contrast seemed to be characterized by scandal and cynicism, narcissicism and disorganization. Yet the transformation that took place in the planning profession had little to do with the Selma march, the riots in Watts and Detroit, or the struggles to achieve the protections of OSHA or the EPA. The real revolution in the profession was the paradigm-switch from planning