ABSTRACT
The book from which this chapter is taken was written at the end of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, a decade marked by the Vietnam war, the civil rights struggle, burning cities, political assassinations, and the fi rst intimations of the “limits to growth” that for many people was to become a central issue by the end of the millennium. Its larger argument was that the kind of planning we were teaching and practicing at the time was based on an out-dated worldview that needed to be rethought from the ground up.
