The Urban Book Series Andrea I. Frank Christopher Silver Editors Urban Planning Education Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects The Urban Book Series Aims and Scope The Urban Book Series is a resource for urban studies and geography research worldwide. It provides a unique and innovative resource for the latest developments in the field, nurturing a comprehensive and encompassing publication venue for urban studies, urban geography, planning and regional development. The series publishes peer-reviewed volumes related to urbanization, sustainabil- ity, urban environments, sustainable urbanism, governance, globalization, urban and sustainable development, spatial and area studies, urban management, urban infrastructure, urban dynamics, green cities and urban landscapes. It also invites research which documents urbanization processes and urban dynamics on a national, regional and local level, welcoming case studies, as well as comparative and applied research. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Foreword Shortly after I started planning school in 1975, I chanced on a copy of the record of a seminar held a year prior to mark the retirement of Jack Parker, the first and until his retirement the only, head of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1 The pages of that slim volume opened a window on a profession in turbulence and an educational enterprise that seemed to dispute more than it confirmed. Planners were unsure if their craft was design or social science. They claimed expertise across an incredibly broad swath of domestic policy matters, yet feared inability to defend their claim against attacks from sister professions. They believed they had a special understanding of the public interest that justified leadership in governance, yet found themselves frozen out of the real corridors of power over and over again. What I didn’t appreciate reading Planning in America at that time was that the planning profession and the schooling traditions that supported it were in their adolescence: 60 or so chronological years old, but still fighting uncertainties of identity and yet to establish an understood place in the larger society. Among the characteristics of adolescence evident were growth spurts fueled by government investments at a pace never before experienced; wanderlust, with planning edu- cation expanding to many countries where it had previously been unknown; and there were arguments about meaning and coherence evocative of late-night college tavern debates. Planning education’s mid-century adolescence gave rise to more serious research methods, to academic journals, to independent academic conferences and to learned societies in the form of school associations. By late century, this now-adult edu- cational enterprise enjoyed global reach and widespread legitimacy, and prided itself on many achievements in economic, environmental and justice domains. A Planning Schools Movement had fostered a worldwide dialogue about how best 1David R. Godschalk. Planning in America: Learning from Turbulence. AIP Planners Press, 1974. v vi Foreword to plan and how best to educate planners.2 That same movement led to the creation of the Global Planning Education Association Network. And, in turn, discussions amongst GPEAN leadership inspired this volume, seeking to draw together plan- ning education experiences from around the world to help frame the planning education choices to be made in the years ahead. Despite adulthood, planning education remains filled with debates over defini- tion and purpose. With maturity have come new ambitions that test old definitions, and new insecurities as old assumptions are challenged by evolving political and economic realities. New technologies have shaken the norms and structures of educational institutions, and new competitors chase at the heels of planning edu- cation from all sides. City government is now seen as a weak manager of growth, praying for the fortitude to control multi-national corporate investment as the prime driver of urban development. Taxpayer revolt has become the new normal and tertiary educational institutions have grown to expect only declining budgets. Online education and cross-border university competition has fostered what often feels like a race to the bottom in time and attention to the individual student. Pressures for recognition and prestige push faculty to publish in international lit- erature that directs them away from the unique characteristics of planning practice in their home countries.3 We may have been an educational enterprise in turbulence in the 1970s, but in the 2010s we are in the midst of chaos and change is widely recognized as the only constant. This unique volume tells the stories of the youth, adolescence and adulthood of education for this remarkable city planning profession. A global roster of authors brings the ambitions, successes and failures of planning educators to life with clarity and fascination. The tensions and disagreements of competing schools of thought are laid bare, but never with animosity. Instead, as the pages turn one has the sense of planning educators as a band of warriors challenging common enemies. The enemies are private interest, corporate greed, anti-intellectualism, and political expediency. The fields of battle include not only the classroom and laboratory, but also professional association governing boards, university administrative offices, education ministry bureaucracies, and legislatures. As I write, the United Nations has just adopted the Quito Declaration‚4 setting forth a New Urban Agenda for the future of cities worldwide. The New Urban Agenda calls for integrative, inclusive, evidence-based urban and territorial plan- ning at the center of the path to securing compact, equitable, resilient, safe and sustainable cities. Planning schools are asked to rise to the challenge of leadership 2Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, vol. 1. Routledge, 2005. 3Klaus Kunzmann. “Unconditional Surrender: The Gradual Demise of European Diversity in Planning.” Keynote address presented to the 18th Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Grenoble, France 3 July 2004. 4United Nations, Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development. “Quito Declaration On Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All”. Resolution A/Conf.226/L.1. Adopted 20 October 2016. Foreword vii in this work, with unprecedented demand for education of new planners, training of stakeholders and officials and knowledge generation to underlie decision-making, design, and implementation. For urban planning schools to meet these demands will require great effort, unprecedented resource development, creativity and political savvy. The history and ambitions laid out in this volume represent a wealth of experience to teach how to overcome the challenges. They also suggest that faculties and students drawn to planning schools and the professionals who work with them have what it takes to succeed and lead the way toward sustainable urbanization in the twenty-first century. Atlanta, USA Bruce Stiftel October 2016 Acknowledgements The seeds for this book and first ideas emerged