ABSTRACT
This chapter touches on one of the deepest divisions—the Cartesian separation of the body from the mind, the built environment from the social, the rational from the emotional. In Dreeszen’s survey on cultural planning, 49% of the respondents indicated their cultural plan was adopted in some formal way by their local municipality. Numerous field leaders and scholars, including Dreeszen, advocated that cultural plans should be more integral to city comprehensive or master plans. Jones characterized cultural planning as emerging at the intersections of city planning and the arts and called for greater involvement of city planners in cultural planning to help improve and grow the practice. Some graduate from planning schools that are politically progressive while others come from conservative programs. City planners work under the direction of risk-averse city managers, mayors, councils, or commissions that can change upon retirements or election cycles, sometimes dramatically.
