ABSTRACT
The planner is the right arm of politics. Being fundamentally political, planning is one of the three professions that Freud characterised as impossible. In everyday speech, a professional practice, is synonymous with occupation, but if people look at its more precise definition they see that profession refers to an occupation based on scientific knowledge and proven experience. Gunnar Fredriksson (1992) has pointed out in his analysis of the language of politics; preservation of ambiguities is the very prerequisite of political agreement. Leone Battista Alberti, an artist who has had a great influence on architecture and urban planning, declared that the task of the Renaissance artist was to create some kind of illusion. Swedish architectural education, scientific thinking and systematic knowledge-building is de-prioritised in favour of professional training. The empirical studies that back modernist design principles focus almost exclusively on the home and on housework.
