ABSTRACT
This Chapter highlights eleven national-planning-related areas and their status in the early and mid-1970's. The citations attempt only to suggest a few of the most useful overview studies and new approaches to each of planning fields. The national planning idea hardly evolved in a planning vacuum in the United States. Particularly since the 1950's, other planning fields and disciplines have been expanding and thoroughly permeating American society with the planning concept. In other fields, the frustrations of experience of the 1960's have spotlighted conceptual and pragmatic problems for considerable re-examination in the 1970's. Each of the planning fields, including the newest, by concern with societal "crisis," and by a general isolation and fragmentation from the others. The barriers between the fields are gradually starting to break down and, together, they form an elaborate web of planning concerns which increasingly permeates American life. This web of varied planning interests and sensitivities suggests considerable potential for contemporary American national planning.
