Local knowledge and the planning of the built environment: Lessons in practice

This chapter challenges the validity and viability of the expressions of comfort, belonging and commitment (CBC) in planning practice. This is the last step in a process of formulating a conceptual framework of local knowledge that has been developed in the book. The framework is based on a different understanding of daily practices in the city, a city that is made out of our homes, our buildings, our streets, our neighbourhoods, our city centres and urban parks. How we can make ourselves at home in the city is perhaps the major challenge of this new framework of local knowledge and its incorporation in urban planning and management.