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Plan Canada 17 /2 June/juin 1977 Canadian Institute lnstitut canadien of Planners des urbanistes ISSN 0032-0544 17/2 June/juin 1977 Plan Cana a This issue is devoted to Social Planning and is edited by Mohammad A. Qadeer. 74 Editorial Book Reviews/Comptes rendus 144 The Power to Make It Happen, 76 Abstracts/Resumes Don Keating/Lois Miller Viewpoints/Points de vue 145 Land and Urban Development, Peter Spurr/William Perks 81 Bridging the Gap: Modern and Traditional/Jim Lotz 148Social Areas in Cities, D.T. Herbert and R.J. Johnston, (eds.)/Clarke Wilson Articles 86 The Scope of Social Planning in Urban 150 Readers' Forum Planning/Mohammad A. Qadeer Ten Books That Influenced Me William Per/cs 96 Neighborhood Planning and Neighbor hood Practice 151 Errata John Hitchcock and Donald Bellamy 107 Planning for the Delivery of Social 152 Selected References/ Services at the Local Level Environmental Planning John Gandy and Roger Del,aney 156 Books Received/Nouvelles acquisitions 118 Social Planning in Vancouver Maurice Egan 157 Contents of Other Journals/ 127 Social Planning Practice: Two Case Sommaires d'autres revues Studies/John W. Frei 159 Contributors/ Auteurs des articles 131 Canadian Regional Development Strategy: A Dependency Theory Perspective/Ralph Matthews Pl.an Canada is published by the Canadian Institute of Plan Canada est publie par l'Institut d'Urbanisme du Planners. The opinions expressed herein are not Canada. Les opinions exprimees dans ce document ne necessarily those of the Institute. Material may be sont pas necessairement celles de l'Institut. 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Tous Jes *Subscriptions articles seront juges par un expert. 1 year *Abonnements Individuals $15.00 Institutions $25.00 1 an Individus $15.00 Single copies and back issues Institutions $25.00 CIP members $4.00 Prix du numero, y compris Jes numeros deja parus Individuals $5.50 Institutions $8.50 Membres du ICU $4.00 Individus $5.50 *Rates effective January 1, 1976 Institutions $8.50 © Canadian Institute of Planners, 1977 *Taux en vigeur le 1er janvier, 1977 Editorial This issue attempts to present a synoptic view of the state of the art of social planning. It seeks to clarify the concept of social planning as applied in urban planning. It examines the current practice to identify significant issues and to highlight Canadian experience. The emphasis in this issue is on the feasible and the practical in social planning rather than on the idealistic and the philosophical. This emphasis is primarily meant to counteract the notion that social planning is a laudable but impractical task. By giving prominence to the practice of social planning, this issue demonstrates that it is a concrete as well as a viable field of public action. The abundance of literature on what social planning 'ought to be' and the robustness of the social utopian tradition have also encouraged us to focus on the relatively neglected aspects of social planning; that is, application and practice. This choice finds ex1 '"ession in many forms; in the selection of articles, in the treatment of topics, and most of all m the type and level of social planning discussed in this issue. The focus is on the middle level institutions such as neighborhoods, public bureaucracies and social service agencies. Articles assembled in this issue tend to deal with the organization and functions of these institutions and propose normative models to make them responsive and effective. Obviously this is a reformist approach to social planning which is closer to the public planning traditions. Societal planning envisioning restructuring of major social institutions is a legitimate field of social planning. It usually culminates in proposing a blueprint for social and political mobiliza tion. Such tasks are generally beyond the normal sphere of activities of public bureaucracies. Thus, the social planning that is to be implemented by public functionaries is likely to focus on middle range social organizations. This issue has stayed close to such concerns. It aims to raise the planning profession's responsiveness to human concerns and sociological needs. Jim Lotz, drawing on the Canadian experience, argues for reliance on community development workers as synthesizers of linear-rational and non-linear-intuitive modes of thought in a planning process. Mohammad Qadeer takes stock of contemporary urban planning and outlines the role that social planning plays in it. Four elements of the social planning process are identified and a paradigm of practice is postulated. John Hitchcock and Donald Bellamy review Toronto's neighborhood planning experience and put forth the concept of 'neighborhood prac tice' which combines community development and area development approaches. John Gandy and Roger Delaney find the concept of a multi-service center to be deficient for integrated delivery of social services. They suggest that without devolution of financial and administrative powers, a responsive and wholesome process of social service delivery is not likely to emerge. Maurice Egan documents the achievements of the Vancouver City Social Planning Department and thus provides a concrete sample of institutionalized social planning. A model of social planning methods is provided by John Frei who presents two case studies as illustrations. Ralph Matthews finds Canadian regional development strategy devoid of social considerations and detrimental to an equitable social organization. According to him, this perpetuates the duality between the advanced-metropolitan and depressed-dependent regions in Canada. 74 Plan Canada 17/2 June/juin 1977 Many common themes run through these articles. There is the notion of social planning specifi cally addressing itself to social structural changes and acting as an instrument to promote equity among social constituencies. Almost all articles argue for establishing locally responsive and accountable processes of planning. Some of these ideas are familiar in planning circles and others may be new. But they still need to be absorbed both institutionally and individually. This is not an opportune time to bring out an issue on social planning. Social planning is not high on public agendas. The Just Society is retreating from the public scene. Social services are being retrenched and a reaction to the welfare state of the 1960s is abroad. There are no lavish grants to be claimed and the popular media have moved on to other issues and topics. In sum, social planning issues are not fashionable causes anymore. Such is not the climate for mounting a thematic issue on social planning. Yet the absence of a bandwagon may in itself be a blessing. It is a time for cool reflection and analysis. We can learn from the experiences of the past decade which witnessed many advances in social planning; we can sift the rhetoric from the substance. These hopes have inspired this issue. It brings together findings from a variety of settings. Yet much needs to be analyzed, experimented with and discussed to incorporate social planning in urban planning. We might as well begin. Mohammad A. Qadeer Editorial 75 ABSTRACTS/RESUMES Jim Lotz, Bridging the Gap: Modern and Jim Lotz, Comment com bier la breche entre Traditional le moderne et le traditionnel This article examines the problems that Dans cet article on examine les problemes arise when technological societies and tradi qui surviennent lorsque les societes techno tional cultures come into contact. In logiques entrent en contact avec les cultures Canada's hinterlands, both types of society traditionnelles. Dans les arriere-pays du co-exist. One society is rooted in urbanized, Canada, les deux types de societes coexist individualized values, and the other in com ent. L'une de ces societes prend ses racines munity-based social systems. Planners dans des valeurs urbanisees, individual have to derive information from both ways isees, et l'autre dans des systemes sociaux of looking at the world. To assist in this bases sur la notion de communaute. Les synthesis, a new role is emerging-the com planificateurs doivent tirer des renseigne munity development worker. ments des deux fa9ons de voir le monde. Community development workers Pour aider a accomplir cette synthese, un encourage input from people with 'rational' nouveau role est en train de se creer, celui de knowledge and those with 'intuitive' l'agent de developpement communautaire. wisdom to assist in the social aspects of the Les agents de developpementcommunau planning process. The implications of hemi taire encouragent ceux qui possedent la spheric specialization of the brain are dis connaissance rationnelle aussi bien que cussed as the basis for understanding this ceux qui ont la sagesse intuitive a leur approach to planning in Canada. fournir des renseignements et a participer aux aspects sociaux de la planification. On discute des implications de la specialisation hemispherique du cerveau, comme etant le Mohammad A. Qadeer, The Scope of Social point de depart pour une bonne comprehen Planning in Urban Planning sion de cette fa9on d'envisager l'urbanisme The role of social planning within the frame au Canada. work of comprehensive urban planning is to assess social structural changes arising from current or proposed physical and/or economic development and to formulate Mohammad A.

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