ABSTRACT
This chapter tackles employment, income and (in)equality in somewhat unconventional ways. Combining neoclassical and heterodox economics with an appreciation of current affairs, it examines its tripartite subject matter with a realistic appreciation of what planning can, and cannot, influence in urban life. The discipline needs to deal with these three and other macro topics more forcibly in its avowed quest to ‘make a difference’. A new outlook, stance and focus of training could be required if it is to make a far more effective social contribution in disruptive and turbulent times.
