ABSTRACT
Planning, Professionalism and the University All professions periodically engage in stock-taking, but of the American
professions none does so more regularly and searchingly than the planning profession. There are many reasons for this. While all professions tend to be continuously changing as their scientific foundations develop and their technical apparatus is modified, planning changes for even more volatile political and social reasons. Programs change, public demands take new forms, and the place of the profession in the society shifts. Planners caught up in these changes are confused, and call for a review of their situation.
