Clifford, Ben;
Vigar, Geoff;
(2023)
Disparate goals, progressive ideals? Professional biographies of planners in the UK and their ideas of ‘mission’.
Planning Practice & Research
10.1080/02697459.2023.2289274.
(In press).
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Abstract
In this paper, we utilise data from biographical interviews to examine the values held by UK planners and whether and how they promote progressive planning ideals in their everyday work, often despite countertendencies in planning systems and organisational priorities. Our research concurs with the idea of a mildly progressive, yet conservative, positioning: in Hillier’s (2002) terms, some planners are ‘on a mission’ but these missions vary from common-good orientations, a desire to do ‘better’ planning in a putative public interest, to more justice-based commitments to certain progressive ‘causes’ such as particular publics, cultural heritage, special places, or the environment.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Disparate goals, progressive ideals? Professional biographies of planners in the UK and their ideas of ‘mission’ |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/02697459.2023.2289274 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2023.2289274 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Planning practice, biographical interviewing, professional values, organisational cultures, careers |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184457 |
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