The limits to planning

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ocal and regional levels. What, then, are the limits to planning at the local and regional levels? The fundamental limit already identified is, of course, the presumption of reasonableness. If the tensions that exist within society at the present time give rise to a massive confrontation between different groups within the populace there is very little that planning can do to avoid violence or to soften their impact on society as a whole. Despite the many disturbing features I find in recent events in Britain, I want to take an optimistic rather than a pessimistic view of the future. Rather than the fundamental limit to planning imposed by the reasonableness presumption, the limits to be discussed in this article represent the frontiers to the field, the limits which restrict planning's current capabilities. They are the priority areas for discussion and research in town and regional planning. They reflect the current state of the art and point to the prospects for the further development of this field of study.

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