| Abstract: | Some of the difficulties in achieving planning goals stem from the tendency in planning to maintain the status quo. Planning philosophy must be redefined and must provide a new concept of planning education to include: recognizing the political influence on planning education; overcoming inadequate internship periods for students; encouraging recruitment of members of client groups into the professional schools; sponsoring and supporting training of ghetto residents as para-professionals; and making it possible for ghetto residents to share in the processes of problem definition, goal formulation, and program implementation. This new concept was the basis for the community-based planning education program for residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in Brooklyn. |
