ABSTRACT

As part of a history of planning methodology, this chapter investigates a set of research questions from the practitioner’s perspective, asking about plan-making processes and methodology; who was included (citizens, government, social scientists) in plan-making; and how best practices of plan-making were disseminated. It explores two themes in some detail: survey-before-plan, a notion that was expounded by Patrick Geddes during the very early days of planning and which has continued to influence how plans are made ever since; and the handling of inter-relationships in plan-making.