Abstract
Planners tend to focus on the three dimensions of the physically built environment and neglect the fourth dimension of time. This chapter argues that for both planning practitioners and planning educators the discipline of time dimension is critical in a number of important ways. Planning, in fact, should be about yesterday and today as well as about tomorrow. The paper discusses some neglected aspects of planning for the future, draws attention to some aspects of the past that are similarly ignored, and then links past, present and future through the idea of ‘path dependence’.
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I would like to thank Melissa Hensley, who is completing Ph.D. research on path dependence in policies about, and effects of, the built environment in helping reduce risk factors for poor health outcomes at the neighbourhood level for her contribution to this chapter.
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Minnery, J. (2016). The Place of Time in Planning Education. In: Kumar, A., Meshram, D., Gowda, K. (eds) Urban and Regional Planning Education . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0608-1_18
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