The Neglected Places of Practice
Writing in this issue of Planning Theory and Practice (14:1), Robert Beauregard, in his article The Neglected Places of Practice, uses a case study of the siting of a sanitary land-fill to explore how the planning decisions involving the site were scattered across meeting rooms, public auditoria, legislative chambers, consultant offices, legal firms, and even the U.S. Congress. “Where planning happens affects what is deliberated, who is involved, and the publicity afforded to the deliberations. To this extent, planning’s